Interesting Research Development

[furrbear]

Acne drug prevents HIV breakout

"Johns Hopkins scientists have found that a safe and inexpensive antibiotic in use since the 1970s for treating acne effectively targets infected immune cells in which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, lies dormant and prevents them from reactivating and replicating.

More details at link above.

Comments

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a decent stop gap measure.

I still think our Government would suppress discovery
of any cure, as major illness is good business for pharmacuetical
companies and Doctors.

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I agree that illnesses can be good business for pharma, but I disagree that the Government would suppress discovery of any cure. Science doesn't work that way. The Government is not in the position to suppress a cure for a major disease like AIDS.

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

I'd like to agree with you, but I just don't trust our government.

Not since the Nixon fiasco.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Maybe you don't realize just how competitive and nationalistic science can be? Suppressing a major discovery like that would be akin to purposefully throwing every event and competitor at the Olympics.

Great national pride is taken in scientific discoveries and the two most competitive branches, IMO, are physics and medicine.

An advance like that wouldn't, no couldn't, stay suppressed very long. Another country's doctors would soon step up to claim the prize... and most like the Nobel for a HIV cure.

[maxauburn.livejournal.com]

I'd like to believe that... but, I'm a certified skeptic who's
lost faith in his government, and in the world.

I don't trust the medical profession itself, due to
several run - ins with unethical doctors.

I hope that if a cure for Aids is discovered, it will go
right to the public.. at a reasonable price.

It's much more likely that a vaccine will be discovered
first.. I've read up on this.