The Ultimate High-Low Fashion Collaboration

Send to KindleTweet Uptown fashion retailer Neiman Marcus and every mom’s favorite 20-minute vacation spot, Target, have teamed up with CFDA and 24 designers to create a holiday gift collection. The collaboration will see the retailers introduce upwards of 50 limited-edition gift products and will result in a $1 million donation to the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). [...]

Weekly Links: Where Sex, Green Gold, & Lip Gloss Collide…

Send to KindleTweet Are sex, food and beauty the modern major food groups? is booze a food? Does liberty and modern society, feminism, equality, give women the right to be whatever we want, even if it means being a functional high-level junkie? These are the questions that came to mind after reading about the NYC [...]

NY Passes HIV Testing, Needle Program Amendments

Send to KindleTweet New York Governor David Paterson has signed a bill (S8227/A11487) that will force doctors to offer patients ages 13 to 64 an HIV test. New York has the highest rate of AIDS in the nation, with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene noting that AIDS is the third leading cause [...]

DC To Have Free Clinic Day In August

Send to KindleTweet The National Association of Free Clinics announced that it will hold a giant free clinic in Washington, D.C. on August 4. The clinic, which will offer free HIV/AIDS tests, other major tests, and medical exams, such as physicals, will be available to uninsured residents in the area. “The District of Columbia has a much [...]

New AIDS Modeling Research Shows Vaccine Progress

Send to KindleTweet Chinese researchers from Xiamen University have developed a new modeling system for HIV that incorporates the random and unpredictable behavior of the virus to mirror real life clinical behavior of the virus. According to Biology News, the research suggests a particular type of T cell could be useful in an AIDS vaccine. [...]

S. Dakota May Put Medical Marijuana On Ballot

Send to KindleTweet South Dakota is among a handful of states that might be the 15th state to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. According to KSFY, the South Dakota Coalition for Compassion collected twice the signatures they needed to get state election officials to consider putting the issue on the ballot for the November election. [...]

Military Stages A Coup In Niger

Send to KindleTweet The military has overthrown the government of Niger, an African nation located north of Nigeria and sandwiched between Mali and Chad. According to Reuters, the junta staged a coup d’etat to push out President Mamadou Tandja. On state radio, this statement was announced: “The president of the Supreme Council for the Restoration [...]

HIV Research Makes A Breakthrough

Send to KindleTweet Researchers have made a breakthrough in HIV research, potentially leading to better treatments for HIV, according to BiologyNews.net. Researchers from Imperial College London and Harvard University grew a high quality crystal that reveals the structure of integrase, an enzyme found in retroviruses like HIV. HIV uses integrase to paste a copy of [...]

Starbucks Speaks To HIV, Recycling Issues

Send to KindleTweet Starbucks, home of the dark roast and the key to regularity, most of all, The Third Place, has issued limited-run cups with red heart designs in time for Hallmark‘s favorite day of the year, but this design means more. The run of heart-emblazoned cups is an ode to the (RED) campaign, whose [...]

Government Agency Urges Black HIV/AIDS Awareness

Send to KindleTweet The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, joins African-Americans in remembering those who have died with AIDS and in fighting the disease. “We have a national responsibility to alleviate the HIV/AIDS-related suffering of African-Americans by ensuring that they have full knowledge of—and access to—all [...]

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