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  • The road to a cure for HIV: the São Paulo Patient

    The road to a cure for HIV: the São Paulo Patient

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    A possible new treatment for HIV on the horizon Promising news regarding treatment of HIV came out of Brazil on the 7th of July. After participating in a trial study in 2015, the São Paulo Patient is the third person to ever be cured of HIV, joining the cohort of the Berlin Patient and the…

  • The clock is tic-ing for Tourette’s syndrome

    The clock is tic-ing for Tourette’s syndrome

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    Tourette Syndrome, or simply Tourette’s, has historically captured the public eye, and ear, by being simply too bizarre to ignore. It causes sufferers to perform ‘tics’ – brief involuntary actions such as arm movements and fragments of speech. Notoriously, the vocal tics can sometimes be socially inappropriate,  e.g. swear words, horrific obscenities or comments on…