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  1. Re:All this... by cft_128 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Anti-HIV Virus Developed
    I'll happily tell it to the faithfully monogamous women. Their husbands 'tom-cattery' gave them aids, which could have been easily prevented by said husbands. It's the husbands fault clear and simple.

    Look, I never said that anybody who gets HIV deverves what they get. I'm saying that in EVERY SINGLE case, somebody is to blame even if it isn't the most recent victim. A newborn gets infected by their mother. If somebody up the chain hadn't screwed around the baby would not have been infected.

    You're right on one count though. I did forget about drug addicts sharing needles, as this is effectively a blood transfer.

    Okay, so now we're up to "Don't share needles. Don't screw around."

    Not very compassionate. Are you using this as a way to lobby against HIV/AIDS research? If so its like lobbying against doing research for safer cars because, if there is an auto accident, someone screwed up while driving and should have been driving safer.

    If not and you are lobbying for abstinence, fine that is a viewpoint but keep in mind that it goes against millions of years of evolution. It will be much easier to convince the average person to use a condom than to be abstinent. So far there are no firm results that support abstinence education as working.

    The current federal sex ed statistics are mostly useless, they went from tracking number of births and proportion of participants having sex to tracking the number of participants that remain in the program, and the number 'who indicate understanding of the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from premarital sexual activity' (see Dept of Health presentation). Not really comparable. Over the last decade California had the largest drop in the nation of teenage pregnancies (now the lowest in the country) with out abstinence only education.

  2. Know thine HIPPA... by mosel-saar-ruwer · · Score: 5, Informative · on Open Source Medical Billing Software

    ...my little Padawan Novitiate:
    http://www.hrsa.gov/website.htm
    At this point, all else is academic.

  3. Re:Before you hop on your soap boxes... by srvivn21 · · Score: 1 · on Cable Modem Tax Proposed by FCC
    Health care? That's just a weird place to fund health care from. They use up all my cigerette taxes that fast eh?


    See here and here.

    Short answer is it's not about paying for the medical workers or supplies, but paying for infrastructure to allow remote diagnosis and collaboration.
  4. Finally something that is affordable by DraconPern · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Hypes XP Tablets

    There's been hypes before, but this one might actually make it. There is a lot of needs for this kind of device in the medical field where a pda doesn't have enough screen space and a laptop is too heavy. It is just that previous implementation were too expensive because they only targeted the medical community (volume is too small to be practical). There are already applications like Medinotes written to take advantage of tablets, so hopefully electronic medical records will become a reality.