The bitterly fought Pluto wars of a few years back showed that even the experts disagree on what is and what isn’t a planet. One thing there’s no quarrel about, of course: a planet is, by definition, something that orbits a star.
Except, it turns out, when it isn’t. Writing in the latest issue of Nature, a team of astronomers is reporting the discovery of ten objects roughly the size of Jupiter that seem to be on the loose, roaming the galaxy untethered to any star. And while ten seems like an insignificant number in a galaxy packed with 200 billion or more stars, the search was an extremely limited one. Unless the observers happened to be absurdly lucky, there could actually be a lot more of these rogue Jupiters perhaps twice as many stars as there are in the Milky Way.
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Endurant is a new HIV drug from Johnson & Johnson. It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration today. This week, there are AIDS/HIV awareness campaigns taking place all over the globe. This week marked HIV/AIDS vaccine awareness day (May 18th). The idea behind vaccination awareness is to encourage trials that push toward finding a viable vaccine to prevent AIDS and HIV from spreading.
To help researchers uncover vaccination and treatment for illness associated with HIV and AIDS, the research community needs HIV positive individuals to reach out to research communities and participate in clinical trials. On the other end of the spectrum, the HIV and AIDS community needs support and empathy from HIV negative community.
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Tags: Approved, Hiv Drug
Tick season is here and an increase in tick bites so early in the season is already raising the concerns of health officials. More tick bites mean more cases of Lyme Disease eventually developing. Anyone who has suffered from this disease in its later stages will tell you that precautions are to be heeded for both humans and pets.
South Central New York State is one of the places reporting the increase in tick bites this year. With New York State being second in the nation when it comes to reported Lyme Diseases case, this is cause for concern. More than a quarter of all the Lyme Disease cases in the country are reported in this area, with the number of cases at about 6,000, according to ABC News.
Wisconsin is reporting cases up 35% over the year before, with all the New England States also noting increases. Read full post…
Tags: Disease, Lyme Disease, Tick Bites
How to deal with an drug addicted child when you have had enough, is not the easiest question to answer. What is even harder is taking in the advice and putting it into action. The most painful journey a parent can take is watching a child slip deeper into the depths of addiction and not knowing what to do to help.
As your child’s demeanor, personality and soul is fading away due to drug use, a parent’s love is just not enough to make this stop. In your child’s eyes, you are no longer the same parents that they loved for all these years. You are either their source of money for the drugs or an obstacle in their way of obtaining their drugs, with many parents switching from one to another.
The addicts main reason for doing anything is to get their hands on drugs. This
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Tags: Addicted Child, Addicted Child When, Child When, Enough
The study surveyed 3,681 people living in various European countries over an eight year period . At the end of that eight year period, 56% of participants with low sodium intakes were more likely to have died from cardiovascular illness than those with high salt intakes. The study published in yesterday’s Journal of the American Medical Association refutes what has become a gospel truth in the US prompting government health experts to insist Americans decrease their salt intake in the quest to reduce hypertension and cardiovascular disease risks.
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Tags: Intake, Intake High