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Armed with a novel strategy they developed for bolstering the body's immune response, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have successfully suppressed HIV infections in mice—offering a path to a functional cure for HIV and other chronic viral infections. Their findings were published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The research involved proteins designed to selectively stimulate the immune system's CD8+ "killer" T cells to multiply and specifically attack HIV-infected T cells. Co-corresponding author Steven Almo, Ph.D., developed the synthetic proteins, known as synTac (short for "synapse for T-cell activation"). Dr. Almo is professor and chair of biochemistry,...

To endure means “to carry through despite hardships; to suffer patiently without giving up.” In short, it means to hold on or hold out, but this word means little to the present generation. Many Christians today are quitters. They quit on their spouses, their families and their God. Peter addresses this subject by saying, “For this is commendable, if because of conscience toward God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully. For what credit is it if, when you are beaten for your faults, you take it patiently? But when you do good and suffer, if you take it patiently, this is...

A 22-year-old Salvadoran immigrant was scheduled to plead guilty Thursday to killing four people in Nevada, in an agreement that a prosecutor said would avoid two death penalty trials and put him in prison for the rest of his life. Wilber Ernesto Martinez Guzman appeared before Washoe County District Court Judge Connie Steinheimer to admit killing a Reno couple and two women in Gardnerville in January 2019. Martinez Guzman told police he committed the two-week series of break-ins, thefts and shootings because he needed money to buy methamphetamine. *** Authorities said Martinez Guzman stole a .22-caliber handgun from Gerald and...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to create a new social media app after Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc barred him from their platforms this year won an endorsement from investors on Thursday who sent shares in a shell company backing the effort soaring. Trump Media and Technology Group and Digital World Acquisition Corp, a Special Purpose Acquisition Vehicle, said on Wednesday https://www.reuters.com/world/us/former-us-president-donald-trump-launches-new-social-media-platform-2021-10-21 they would merge to create a new social media app called TRUTH Social. Trump’s company said it plans a beta launch next month and a full roll-out in the first quarter of 2022. Shares of Miami-based Digital...

Here's what's behind the continued decline of independent practiceThis is the main story in a series examining how trends in healthcare ownership are impacting physician practice. Click here for a sidebar on what physician autonomy means today, and here for a sidebar on how private equity in particular is driving employment trends.Sterling Ransone, Jr., MD, is a third-generation family physician. But even one generation ago, the practice of medicine was much different. Though Ransone followed in his father's footsteps as a rural family doctor, he didn't do so in the same shoes. From 1957 to 1990, his father practiced solo...

https://youtu.be/M_5vGa4weYQ Two quick hits on a Thursday afternoon Brandon Phone Prank https://youtu.be/TVso8trJ_5o

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) sounded off on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda. McConnell slammed the “irresponsible” and “reckless” spending proposal. He added that “the American people didn’t vote to turn this country into Bernie Sanders’ socialist vision.”

The new social network founded by former President Trump may violate the terms of use of the software on which it is based. On Wednesday night, after Trump revealed the TRUTH social app, Twitter users began to note that the network appeared to be based on an open-source social networking software called Mastodon, which allows people to modify the underlying code so long as they abide by its license.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on Thursday said he offered to change his party affiliation to an independent amid tough reconciliation negotiations with President Biden and the far-left. Manchin told reporters he had offered Biden and the far-left to become an independent if he become an “embarrassment” to the Democrat Party.

President Biden on Wednesday told a false story — for the fourth time since taking office — about an Amtrak conductor named Angelo Negri who supposedly boasted about his train ridership during his final year as vice president. Negri retired from Amtrak in 1993 and died in May 2014, CNN reported in June — making it impossible for Negri to have spoken with Biden during his final year as VP, which would have been in 2016 or the first month of 2017. The president retold the tale, which he called “a true story,” in Scranton, Pa., to underscore his commitment...

One man’s anarchy is another’s road to justice. Sheer chaos and anarchy on the border?Afghanistan—the most humiliating defeat in recent U.S. military history?A labor-starved supply chain in shambles and holiday shelves emptying out?The worst inflation in 30 years that seems soon ready to match Carter-era levels?Gas hitting $5 a gallon with winter heating fuels soaring?Free-for-all looting in the major cities without consequences?Joe Biden’s policies and Biden himself diving in the polls?Never in recent American history has any administration birthed such disasters in its first nine months. Yet most Americans are arguing not over the sheer chaos and disasters of the...

ST. LOUIS, MO—Local liberal Joe Bailey has for years enjoyed cheering on his son Brandon at his Little League soccer games, but lately that has proven difficult, since his cheering typically involves shouting the insurrectionist chant "Let's Go Brandon" from the stands. "I try to be so careful, but every so often in the excitement, I let slip a ‘Let’s go Brandon!’" said Bailey. "Then all the parents join in chanting, the game devolves into fits of laughter, and all the Trump supporters are trying to give me a high-five. It’s horrible!" According to sources, Mr. Bailey has thought about...

Kevin Galalae has published his research in a document titled: PCR Tests and the Depopulation Program. He concludes “the coronavirus blamed for countless deaths real and imagined is a political fiction. The symptoms attributed to Covid are caused by a deliberate three-pronged attack on our health and lives by our own national and international authorities.”The deliberate three-pronged attack is summarised as follows:damage the epithelium of the nasopharyngeal cavity with PCR test swabs to bring down the immune defences that protect our braincreate a closed loop between the mouth and the nose, thus between outgoing and incoming air, by forcing us...

The demand that every health care employee must take the COVID vaccine or be fired is forcing the Central Maine Medical Center to curtail services available to patients. The hospital asked the Governor's office to allow a COVID testing option in order to avoid losing critical staff, but was denied by Gov. Janet Mills (D). "Like President Biden, I've also lost patience with people who refuse to get vaccinated," Mills said. She professed herself "unimpressed with the fact that so many medical practitioners are refusing to be vaccinated. While I am grateful for the hazards and sacrifices these doctors and...

COVID-19 injections have been presented as the only solution to stop the pandemic. Mass vaccination has occurred on an unprecedented scale, and as of October 2021, 6.54 billion doses of COVID-19 jabs have been administered, equating to 47.6% of the world population having received at least one dose.1The mass injection effort, however, has failed to stop the pandemic, and a study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology has released bombshell data showing that increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination in 68 countries worldwide and 2,947 counties in the U.S.2By Dr Joseph MercolaData Show Jabs Aren’t Working...

‘The Marine corps taught me not to mess around’ Details — Gas station in Yuma, Arizona VIDEO AT LINK.........................

Dr. Malik Peiris, who previously served on the Lancet medical journal’s COVID-19 origins investigation committee, received China’s “Nobel Prize” for research concluding that COVID-19 developed naturally.Peiris, a Sri Lankan virologist working in Hong Kong, was one of 12 scientists leading the now-defunct Lancet probe into the origins of COVID-19.While the task force is no longer listed on the medical journal’s website, as it was forced to disband due to extensive conflicts of interests with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, archived web pages reveal Peiris’s participation in the effort.Following Peiris’s stint on the task force, the Chinese Communist Party awarded him...

What? You expected us not to make a juvenile joke in the headline of this story? Listen, most of us around here are still amused by bodily functions, so this shouldn’t be unexpected. What was unexpected for a Halton Police officer earlier this week was a contractor who failed to tightly secure the trailer hitch ball on their truck’s drawbar. According to a video posted to Twitter by the attending officer, the truck and trailer in question were bounding along Dundas Street when the gendarmes spotted something amiss at the hitching point. Closer inspection revealed the ball on which the...

New York Stock Exchange-listed shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. — the special purpose acquisition company that announced Wednesday evening it will merge with former President Donald Trump’s new social media firm — soared more than 200 percent Thursday. DWAC’s stock price began trading Thursday at $12.73 per share and reached as high as $33.44, up more than 200 percent, by 1:00 p.m. ET. Shares of the company were halted for volatility at noon, with the stock up more than 134 percent. Shares were last seen trading at $31.55, up more than 210 percent. Trump’s newly formed company, Trump Media...

The sad death of Colin Powell should bring more needed attention to the phenomenon of breakthrough COVID infections of the fully vaccinated. You can choose to believe the establishment that breakthrough infections are nothing to worry about. Just a minor inconvenience because COVID vaccines are not and cannot be 100% effective. Or you can consider real world data that show how serious breakthrough infections really are. Department of Defense study A recent release of data from an important study by the Department of Defense merits very serious attention. It is called the Project Salus study. One indication of how important...