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JCC Child born with HIV apparently cured.

Discussion in 'Community' started by Adam of Nuchtern, Mar 4, 2013.

  1. Adam of Nuchtern

    Adam of Nuchtern Force Ghost star 6

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    http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...cure-of-hiv-in-a-child-say-its-a-game-changer

     
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  2. timmoishere

    timmoishere Force Ghost star 6

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  3. Aytee-Aytee

    Aytee-Aytee Jedi Master star 5

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    Interesting. With those traces of HIV DNA and RNA in the child's bloodstream....could this be the first step towards a vaccine as well?
     
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  4. Debo

    Debo Force Ghost star 6

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    The specialist's name is Gay. I really wish I could say something constructive and *not* think of a stupid joke.
     
  5. DantheJedi

    DantheJedi Jedi Grand Master star 5

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  6. Kyle Katarn

    Kyle Katarn Force Ghost star 6

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    I was thinking along those same lines too. Re-watched that ep on Saturday and thought I was imagining things when I saw this story on Sunday.

    Were I the CEO of a drug company who made one (or more) of these antiretroviral drugs, I would be donating them by the truckload to any lab or hospital which was looking to conduct further research along these lines. There are times where profit needs to be set aside for the greater good and this would be one of those times.
     
  7. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    you've come a long way baby
     
  8. JoinTheSchwarz

    JoinTheSchwarz Former Head Admin star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I don't know, Kyle. If you were the CEO of a large drug company, you probably would've lost your soul many years ago.
     
  9. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    also CEOs cant just do whatever they want. they have a legal obligation to the shareholders that keeps them from doing the right thing on pain of legal action against them. what you've described could land a CEO in jail for defrauding shareholders
     
  10. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    Ten's right.

    I'm no hippie, but I found that principle one of the most upsetting things I'd ever learned about corporate law. I get it: you have a fiduciary duty to people who spent their own money investing in your thing, but... ugh. Dislike.
     
  11. Rogue1-and-a-half

    Rogue1-and-a-half Manager Emeritus who is writing his masterpiece star 9 VIP - Former Mod/RSA

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    I saw this story earlier this morning and it put a smile on my face. It's no guarantee that a genuine cure for the disease for all the sufferers of it will come out of this, but it's another step toward that and that makes me happy.
     
  12. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    glad to see you still have enough of a soul left to be disturbed by that :p
     
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  13. Kyle Katarn

    Kyle Katarn Force Ghost star 6

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    This is when you label it as a "charitable donation", mainly for the tax writeoffs (which these things can generate, trust me) but also the positive PR which is never a bad thing, especially for a drug company. I've been around these types for years, I know all too well what they can/cannot do and I also know how they operate, this wouldn't be off the table at all.
     
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  14. Healer_Leona

    Healer_Leona Squirrel Wrangler of Fun & Games star 9 Staff Member Manager

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    First thought that came to mind was 32 years ago???? Wow!
     
  15. Mortimer Snerd

    Mortimer Snerd Force Ghost star 4

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    Technically it's been around for more than 32 years, but Rock Hudson marked the beginning of everyone knowing about it.
     
  16. VadersLaMent

    VadersLaMent Chosen One star 10

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    Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

    That is one awesome sig, yo.
     
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  17. Mortimer Snerd

    Mortimer Snerd Force Ghost star 4

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    Thank you!
     
  18. VadersLaMent

    VadersLaMent Chosen One star 10

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    You are welcome. One day we shall meet and I shalt buy you an alcholic beverage of your choice.
     
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  19. Mortimer Snerd

    Mortimer Snerd Force Ghost star 4

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    In kind, I shall do the same!
     
  20. GrandAdmiralJello

    GrandAdmiralJello Comms Admin ❉ Moderator Communitatis Litterarumque star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    Yes, but that doesn't stop shareholder derivative suits. You'd still have to defend that sort of action in court, and I think that (sadly) letting go of an HIV cure for PR or tax writeoffs in lieu of the profits is so extreme that it wouldn't be protected by the business judgment rule.
     
  21. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    you could just, go ahead and do it, paul farmer-style, (rockstar harvard medical anthropologist famous for, among other things, the time he straight up stole a bunch of anti-retrovirals from harvard research labs and just took em in a suitcase to haiti and started passing em out), consequences be damned, but the kind of people who would do that simply aren't the kind of people who become CEOs of for-profit companies. our system places sociopaths and near-sociopaths in that role, not extreme altruists
     
  22. Mortimer Snerd

    Mortimer Snerd Force Ghost star 4

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    I wanna have your babies.
     
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  23. Rogue_Ten

    Rogue_Ten Chosen One star 7

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    have paul farmer's babies. we need more of him, not me
     
  24. Darth Guy

    Darth Guy Chosen One star 10

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    Were I the CEO of a drug company, I'd try to find a way back to this universe BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
     
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  25. V-2

    V-2 Jedi Grand Master star 5

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    I'm going to wait for the peer review before getting excited.