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How To Cure Cancer: Shoot HIV At It

>Using a modified, harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, they inserted a series of genes into the white blood cells. These were designed to make to cells target and kill the cancer cells. After growing a large batch of the genetically engineered white blood cells, the doctors injected them back into the patients.

[There are days when the world is stranger than I expected, and those are days like today.][link]

[link]: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44090512/#.TkRaQWZWTd4 “New leukemia treatment exceeds ‘wildest expectations’ – Health – Cancer – msnbc.com”

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comix4sight

[Comics writer John Ostrander][link] has been fighting glaucoma for years, and needs your help.

[link]: http://www.comix4sight.com/ “comix4sight.com”

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Obama admits to smoking on occasion

[Me too, buddy][link].

[link]: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/23/obama-admits-to-smoking-on-occasion/ “CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive – Obama admits to smoking on occasion « – Blogs from CNN.com”

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iHeartRate by Endloop

[My friend Ken Seto’s iPhone/iPod Touch app, recently updated to version 1.1][link]. It’s one of the best-looking and friendliest health-related iPhone apps I’ve seen.

[link]: http://endloop.ca/ “endloop inc.- fun, elegant iPhone apps and games”