“Contagion” follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to s...
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Overview: Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug taking, women loving, homophobic man who, in 1986 was diagnosed with full blown HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live. Genre: Drama. Country: United States of America. Runtime: 1h 57m. Rated: R. Movie links: ...
Part Three– is devoted to the evidence of orthomolecular treatment in alcoholism, Alzheimer’s, cancer, cardiovascular disease, depression and anxiety, drug addiction, eye diseases, fatigue, HIV, learning behaviour problems, radiation sickness (including the recent Fukushima disaster), and schizophrenia...
Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of example of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool. In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative know...
an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.The idea seems promising,and Rosenberg is a perceptive observer.Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on:they fail to mobilize peer p...
Have doctor's finally found a cure for the deadly disease? According to Brown, he has had no major illnesses since the transplant 3 years ago. Brown received a transplant of blood stem cells which cured the disease. Brown did get lucky. The blood stem cells he received happen to be from...