HIV baby case: a miracle cure?

March 4, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Baby Born With Aids 'Cured' A baby born with the virus that causes Aids appears to have been cured, scientists have announced. Specialists at a major Aids meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, described the case of a child from Mississippi who is now two and a half and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.  Continue reading... 'I'M WORRIED FOR LABOUR' MEHDI HASAN: Have the Balls Bashers Gone Mad? OCCUPY KNUTSFORD 'I've Lost Two Children': Gemma McCluskie's Father Disowns Son Who Murdered His Daughter Melbourne Cyclists Bare All In Safety Protest (PICTURES) CHARLES DONOVAN This Is Wheel Life Today, I bump into the edges of doorways. While stretching to pick up one thing, I manage to drop several others. I reverse into tables. I crash into entrances and misjudge distances. There is so much to learn about wheelchairs. I cannot think where to start. The thread connecting me to life and to sanity is a slender one. It is fraying as I write. I try to get perspective. I think of the lovely people I met in hospital whose higher level of injury means the loss of arm movement, the loss of anything below the head. It is good to get perspective. At the same time, the fact that someone else's problems are bigger than one's own does not magically take one's own away. Continue reading... MEHDI HASAN Have the Balls Bashers Gone Mad? To remove Ed Balls from the post of shadow chancellor would deprive the opposition of its most accomplished macroeconomist - and its fiercest attack dog. It would also be an act of supreme cowardice, not strength, on the part of Ed Miliband. Like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown before him, the Labour leader would be dancing to the tunes of the right-wing media echo chamber - the Dacres, the Desmonds, the Murdochs. Continue reading... KATE NASH It's Time for Some Girl Talk! There are a lot of emotions spread across the tracks from friendships gone bad, love and loss - a lot for listeners to connect to. I consider the record my mission statement on what it means to be a girl, and all of my strong, controversial opinions are laced throughout. Continue reading... LEE CHALMERS Hate Crime Is Only Funny When It's About Women It's not been a great few weeks to be a woman. Against the backdrop of recent allegations of sexual misconduct in politics and a thoroughly sexist Oscars ceremony, Twitter was all a flutter over the past weekend as it discovered t-shirts being sold through Amazon with the slogan 'Keep Calm and Rape Her'. Continue reading... MICHAEL SPICER Salesmen of a Death - Some TV Commercials Terrify Me Commercials are awful for the most part (except the one I was in which was extraordinarily good) and in an attempt to move away from predictable narrative set-ups and engage with a more media-savvy audience, advertisers are adopting far more adventurous ways of selling us biscuits and bank loans. Continue reading... You have received this UK email from AOL (UK) Limited, who provides UK. You can choose to stop receiving these emails at any time, by clicking on UNSUBSCRIBE in any MyDaily email you receive. We respect your privacy and will never forward your data on to a third party without your consent. For full details of AOL's (UK) Limited's policy click here. AOL (UK) Limited believes the information contained in this email to be correct but makes no guarantees as to its accuracy. Copyright © 2012 AOL (UK) Limited AOL (UK) Limited, Shropshire House, 11-20 Capper St, London, WC1E 6JA.