Study Says Some People Having AIDS Aren’t Infectious

It is found in a recent study that AIDS patients that have been treated with the latest antiretroviral drugs can no longer infect other people through sexual contact. The drugs work so well that even though the patients aren’t cured, they make it able that only a small amount of the virus is circulating through the body. Researchers say that this fact prevents a HIV-positive person from transferring the virus through sexual intercourse.

The researchers also say that AIDS patients who took the drugs for at least six months can have unprotected sex with HIV-negative people without infecting them. Many activists and doctors don’t agree with doing this because it might have HIV-positive people having sex without informing their partners about their disease. If a HIV-positive patient missed a dose of their medicine, then they could be at risk of infecting their partners.

Sleeping Pills Cause Woman to Awake From Coma

A sleeping pill named zolpidem, sold under the name Ambien, caused a 23 year old woman named Amy Pickard to awake from a 6 year coma after being given the drug. She is one of 360 patients from around the world that is involved in a test trial of using zolpidem to treat coma patients. She had gone into a coma at the age of 17 after injection heroine. After taking the pill, she was able eat and breathe on her own. She is also able to visually focus on things in her room and starting to talk again.

A Car Lands in Chiropractor's Clinic

For the second time in four months and the third time since the shop opened Bob Ziegler has had a motorist drive into his clinic. Luckily there were no patients in the waiting room at the time. In both cases the cars were driven by elderly women. The women were not given tickets. Officers have the choice to not write tickets when cars hit buildings. There were no injuries reported. The clinic owner, Bob Ziegler, wants to talk to his landlord about placing barriers in front of the clinic to stop cars.