Health and Fitness

__IMAGE_2 Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered new protein fragments in semen that enhance the ability of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to infect new cells — a discovery that one day could help curb the global spread of this deadly pathogen.

HIV/AIDS has killed more than 25 million people around the world since first being identified some 30 years ago. In the United States alone, more than one million people live with HIV/AIDS at an annual cost of $34 billion.

Previously, scientists in Germany discovered that HIV transmission is linked to the presence of an amyloid fibril in semen. This fibril — a small, positively charged structure derived from a larger protein — promotes HIV infection by helping the virus find and attach to its target: CD4 T white blood cells.

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my son has a lump the size of a small marble and it come in just over night no opening on lump under over tongue

Given the rapid onset and location, the lump most likely represents a benign process called mucocele. A mucocele is thought to develop when saliva (spit) is lost or spilled from the tube-like duct that carries if from the saliva gland to the lining of the mouth. The spill produces a painless lump of spit. It may increase or decrease in size as the body tries to absorb it or more saliva is spilled from the damaged duct. A mucocele is often quite persistent and few resolve on their own. Treatment is based on minor surgical removal, and this is usually performed by an oral (oral and maxillofacial) surgeon.

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Flu and cold symptoms are similar but there are some clues to help you tell the difference and decide whether to stay home. Biggest clue Flu symptoms come on in less than 24 hours and with great intensity. There is a characteristic high fever (100-102 degrees) that lasts three to four days. Fever with a cold is rare and symptoms come on more slowly over several days. How does your body feel with the flu? You feel like you were hit by a truck with sometimes severe aches and pains; chills; prominent headache; and extreme exhaustion, fatigue and weakness that may last two to three weeks. How does you body feel with a cold? Fever, chills and headache are rare. Feeling a little achy is common. Full Article…

FAMOUS FOLLICLES: Scientists have the technology to test Jane Austen’s hair for lethal levels of arsenic.

On April 27, 1817, Jane Austen sat down and wrote her will, leaving almost all of her assets—valued at less than 800 pounds sterling—to her sister Cassandra. In May, the sisters moved to Winchester, England, so the bedridden Jane would be near her doctor. On July 18, only a few days after dictating 24 lines of comic verse to Cassandra, Jane died.

Since at least the 1960s Austen scholars, doctors and fans have tried to retrospectively identify the curious illness that killed the 41-year-old English author. Crime novelist Lindsay Ashford thinks she has finally solved the mystery. Aus

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