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Quinine Side Effects Outweigh The Benefits, Regulators Find (Hartford Courant)
Q. I am devastated that quinine is no longer available. I have taken it safely for decades to reduce leg cramping, especially at night. Since I ran out and cannot get more, I have a terrible time sleeping. I spend most of the night pacing the floor to work out the cramps. Why would the Food and Drug Administration ban quinine when it is the only thing that works? ...

Antigenics Reports Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results (Centre Daily Times)
Antigenics Inc. (NASDAQ: AGEN) reported results today for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. The company incurred a net loss attributable to common stockholders of $12.2 million, or $0.19 per share, basic and diluted, for the second quarter of 2008, compared with a net loss attributable to common stockholders in the second quarter of 2007 of $10.1 million, or $0.22 per share, basic and diluted. ...

Berkeley Herpes Prof is a Millionaire (East Bay Express)
This is one of those moments when we ask ourselves: Why did we go into journalism when the real money's in herpes virology? According to the EB Biz Times , Cal assistant professor Britt Glaunsinger snagged a $1 million Keck Foundation grant to study how the herpes virus sneaks around without the human immune system noticing.

Medical Briefs (St. Charles Journal)
YMCA revamps its fitness center The St. Charles County Family YMCA is offering a free fitness consultation and one-week pass to residents who come in to test out the facility's new fitness equipment. The YMCA is located at 3900 Shady Springs Lane in St. Peters.

MoveOn Goes "Viral" With Gross Pro-Obama Valtrex Ad [Marketing] (Gawker)
This pro-Obama ad is about how "hope" is a lot like a sexually transmitted disease. It is designed to reach to the Youngs, all of whom have herpes, especially in Brooklyn. It is by MoveOn.org. In...

MEREDITH CUMMINGS: God has a funny way of telling me to cherish life (The Tuscaloosa News)
Why not begin my last column with this comical bit: My cat was diagnosed with herpes this week.

HIV: The next shot (Nature)
Researchers trying to develop an HIV vaccine have endured two decades of setbacks. Erika Check Hayden meets a veteran still engaged in the fight #20; and a rookie willing to join in anyway.

Integrating Adult Vaccines into Your Routine Care (Richfield Reaper)
(ARA) - Every year, nearly 50,000 Americans, mostly adults, die from diseases that vaccination can prevent and millions more need to be hospitalized, get too sick to care for loved ones, like children or elderly parents, and are forced to miss work.

Yale Students' Lawsuit Unmasks Anonymous Trolls, Opens Pandora's Box (Wired News)
"Women named Jill and Hillary should be raped." Those are the words of "AK-47" -- a poster to the college-admissions web forum AutoAdmit.com. AK-47 was one of a handful of students heaping misogynist scorn on women attending the nations' top law schools in 2007, in posts so vile they spurred a national debate on the limits of online anonymity, and an unprecedented federal lawsuit aimed at ...

CORRESPONDENCE: HSV-2 Suppression and the Incidence of HIV (New England Journal of Medicine)
To the Editor: Watson-Jones et al. (April 10 issue)1 report that the suppression of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) ...