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Posts tagged with health
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Tim Barrus: NY Times
It is known that HIV causes inflammation. I do not know of a single effective medical treatment. We are left to wonder. The notion of “living with cancer” seems to correlate with “living with HIV.” Or both. The HIV meds do not seem to affect inflammation. Anecdotally, people living with…
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Tim Barrus: The New York Times: Growing Old in America
Poverty is a cycle. It comes. It goes. It eats its young. It decimates its old. It is not unlike the people who inhabit it. Tara Parker-Pope’s statement in the New York Times: Getting older is inevitable (and certainly better than the alternative) stuns me. We are afraid of death.…