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John Celock

Kansas 'Zombie Legislation' Strikes Nerve

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.19.2013 | Politics
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Health Policy, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Kansas Politics, Health Quarantines, AIDS Quarantine, Disease Control, Aids, Public Health, Hiv, Quarantine, Kansas AIDS Quarantine, Politics News

A Kansas bill would repeal the state's 1988 ban on quarantining individuals with HIV and AIDS as part of broader changes to its public health practice...

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Is Your Immune System Prejudiced?

Wray Herbert | Posted 02.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Flu, Cognitive Biases, Disease Prevention, Health News, Emotional Intelligence, Prevention of Disease, Health Prevention, Flu Prevention, Disease Control, Healthy Living News
Wray Herbert

It's been known for some time that our heightened vigilance can trigger a biological response as well. We're heading into flu season now, so we're primed to be circumspect, and this in turn puts the body's disease-fighting cells on high alert. But does it also work the other way around?

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South African Prisoners Are Offered Circumcision For AIDS Campaign

Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Prisoners Get Circumcized, HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Hiv, Men's Health, Disease Control, Male Circumcision, Std, Sexually Transmitted Disease, Health, Circumcision, Aids, World News

In an effort to slow the spread of HIV in one of the country's highest-infected regions, prisoners in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province are now be...

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