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Wow!

In a week filled with great and fab updates on the war on AIDS, we've had a new prevention drug, word that new related deaths are dropping, and now there's a focused effort on actually producing a cure!

The world is totally ready for one!

The sick part of this article is the revelation that scientists and drug companies HAVEN'T been really working on one. They've just been trying to contain the symptoms and vaccines.

They're not swinging for the fence, really.

The International Aids Society (IAS) are swinging away, on the other hand.

They say it's our best chance at eradication — vaccines are still far off, treatment costs are way too high.

So what do they consider a cure?

They call it a "functional cure." What does this mean? It means that there are those out there that have the disease, but do not need medication to handle it. It happens to about .3% or 1% depending on who you ask. For some of them it is 20 years since they were infected with HIV, and they have no detectable levels of virus in the blood.

So basically, if you can stop taking drugs, then you have been "functionally cured".

The inspiration for this is Timothy Brown — a man that had both HIV and leukemia. The doctors selected a special bone marrow transplant from a donor that had a gene that made him resistant to HIV — now Brown is cured of both cancer and HIV.

Holy shizz!

Even though it still might be a while, it's never to early to start searching!

That's the first step!

[Image via AP Images.]

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AMAZING!!

The Elton John AIDS Foundation just announced that Sir Elton John's new book, Love Is the Cure, is available now!

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Ken Baumann, an actor on ABC's The Secret Life of the American Teenager, is currently fighting Chron's disease.

Chron's causes inflammation all throughout the digestive tract.

Ken said:

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Jack Osbourne, who was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, was just invited by a fellow MS sufferer to join her team for the National MS Society Bike Ride.

Jan Kleiner asked him to join her Team Road Kill for the ride, saying:

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Just a few short years after beating cancer, Good Morning America's Robin Roberts has just announced she has MDS.

MDS is a bone marrow disorder, and it actually stems from the treatment she got to beat her cancer.

But she wants everyone to know that she's a fighter, and she'll beat this too!

To conquer this, she'll be starting chemotherapy, which will lead to a bone marrow transplant later this year — and her doctors have told her to ignore what's there when she Googles it, because she's younger and fitter than most people who get it.

They say she'll be cured!

Unfortunately for African American women, it's hard to find a bone marrow donor. Luckily, her sister is a great match for her!

She will NOT be giving up as an anchor at GMA. She'll be strong and continue that post — but she admits that she might miss a day here and there.

We say: take all the time you NEED. We'll miss you on GMA when you're absent, but we can handle it because you're off getting healthy!

Robin, you are SO STRONG. You can do this!!

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We ALL (okay, only 1/3 of us) know what brain freeze is in terms of having felt it, and there's even a definition for it:

'Brain freeze is a painful— though harmless— sensation in the front or sides of the head occurring a few seconds after the rapid ingestion of cold foods or drinks[1].'

But what is it REALLY? What's going on to cause it??

We're about to get science on all of your asses! Ha!

Studies are now suggesting that when something cold comes into contact with the palate (particularly the back, topmost part of the mouth) it causes a sudden constriction of blood vessels.

This happens VERY quickly. So quickly that the change in temp alerts pain receptors to trigger nerves carrying nerves from the face to the brain.

These nerves usually sense face pain, so they tell the brain that it's coming from the forehead and not the mouth!

Weird!

The cure is to stop scarfing down cold things. Take the time to let your mouth get acclimated to the temp change!

Science! Science! Science!

[Image via AP Images.]

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Bobby Womack, soul legend, is now CANCER FREE!!

Woo hoo!

We previously mentioned that he was in the hospital with pneumonia and diagnosed with colon cancer.

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