Timothy Ray Brown, a 45-year-old San Francisco man previously known to the medical community as “the Berlin patient,” has become the first person to ever be cured of AIDS.

After a stem cell bone marrow transplant, doctors say his HIV, the infection which causes AIDS, was eradicated.

His bone marrow donor was one of a very small percentage of people who are immune to HIV. He received a second bone marrow transplant after a resurgence of Leukemia, which he’s also since been cured of.

Doctors still aren’t exactly sure what part of his treatment allowed his body to purge the virus, but clinical trials are scheduled to begin in 2012.

more here: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/05/16/apparent-immunity-gene-cures-bay-area-man-of-aids/

Excerpt: “[T]he ice cream – made with all natural products and locally sourced ingredients with low fat, less sugar and more protein – is the first of their products that will not only benefit athletes, but diabetics and obesity sufferers as well.

His samples so far have shown the icecream to have about 25% of the calories of normal icecream and in the blind tasting, it rated as tasting better than the full fat control sample. “It was quite a small group though,” he says.”

Who else wants to be a test subject? *raises hand*

And wouldn’t you know, it was easy and effective: it grew to this size after a week, upon which I upgraded the jar and brewed for another week, and by yesterday looked like this. (I’ll figure out how to do a cool slideshow later).  Hardly any work at all, it’s just like keeping a goldfish!  A creepy immobile goldfish. Whose tankwater you drink. I poured some of the tea off and tasted it: could be tangier, so I added more and am waiting til the Equinox to test again.

Also, I had dubbed the SCOBY “Crony” in reference to David Cronenberg, because it seemed like something out of his signature body horror films (Google for images from “eXistenZ” or “Videodrome” if you’re not familiar), but I’m susceptible to zeitgeist so am now calling it “Mother Monster”. If I get an avant-garde cease-and-desist missive from Lady Gaga, I’ll totally post about it!

Excerpt: “The woman’s case has appeared in the New Zealand Medical Journal, where Dr Whu said he treated the 44-year-old woman over a year ago while working in Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.

The woman experienced loss of movement in her left arm after her former partner gave her a hickey on her neck, near an artery, while watching television.”

This routine is perfect for those who just can’t make it to the gym or want to get an AWESOME pump before going out for the night. By contracting/flexing your muscles as hard as you can you are forcing blood to the area and using up energy to burn calories while gaining mass and strength.

Don’t believe me? Try talking to someone who has had to flex for a long period of time during a fitness competition or fitness photoshoot. Oh wait, that’s me! It works! Give it a try!

PS: A little birdy told me that 1 quick set of each exercise before you go out for the night will give you a nice pump

Be sure to download your FREE SHF iPhone app for workouts on the go!

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In many ways, to ask people to accept gay men, is to ask them to understand and embrace anal sex. Yes, that is not ALL we do in the bedroom, but it’s one of the important things in our sexual lives.

Whenever I hear the statement that “gay/butt sex is not natural,” I wonder if this person knows anything about biology or animals that live in groups. All of nature loves some back door hanky panky; monkeys do it, dolphins do it, even… ok, I’ll stop now before it turns into a Cole Porter song.

Have we always been so shy about our behinds? In the late 1800s French professional farter and entertainer Joseph Pujol, known as Le Pétomane, was a staple at the Moulin Rouge nightclub where he would play musical instruments with his butt, blow out candles from several feet away. He wasn’t farting though, he would suck air in through his butt and then forcibly expel it. He could also suck water out of a bowl with his backside. Now, that’s a power bottom.

Today we’re shining some light into the place where the sun doesn’t shine. What are some common misconceptions about anal sex? How do porn stars do all that sex in movies? Besides using condoms, what are some new ways you can protect yourself from HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases?

Taped live at the Center on Halsted in Chicago Illinois- we’re joined by our bootylicious group of sex-experts: Chicago Porn Star J.C. Carter, Dr. Will Wong of the Chicago Department of Public Health and our very own Jim Pickett of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and Project IRMA.

Click here for a complete photo gallery of the event.

We loved getting our picture taken pretending to enter the Tunnel of Love in Swan Boat created by Scott Bradley and Mike Miller from the Scooty and JoJo Show. Thank you boys! It was very romantic!

Thank you to all the sponosrs of the event- Steamworks, Center on Halsted, Project Crysp and Lifelube.

•• To find a GLBT friendly doctor, visit the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association’s website search engine.
•• To anonymously notify a sexual partner about an STD, go to InSpot.org.

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Everybody seemed to have a little cocktail bar set up in their living room. And then all of a sudden, everyone got rid of them. Except for TV shows like Absolutely Fabulous and Sex and the City, we seldom see TV characters getting drunk like we used to. What happened?

Are we drinking less today, or are we hiding it better?

On today’s show, Feast of Fools teams up with Project CRYSP, Chicago Task Force on LGBT Substance Abuse and Sidetrack to bring you a very special live podcast forum about our complicated relationship with alcohol.

Meet the experts-

Dr. David McKirnan, Professor of Psychology at University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Research Investigator at Howard Brown. He began studying alcohol & drug use among GLBT people in the mid-80s and he later examined the intersection of substance use & HIV risk. Think of him as the Dr. Kinsey of booze!

Lisa Rivitz, the Program Manager for Recovering with Pride Substance Abuse Program at Howard Brown Health Center. Her work focuses on addictions, 12-step recovery for substance abuse and other compulsive behaviors, working with individuals to overcome their abuse with drugs and alcohol.

And meet two bartenders from your favorite gay bars in Chicago, from Sidetrack Paul Davis and from Minibar, Tom Andrika. Paul’s been in recovery for as long as he’s been a bartender at Sidetrack, which has been called the “best gay bar in America.” What’s it like to be a bartender at such a well visited place when you don’t touch the sauce?

In 1946 Tom Adrinka’s grandfather opened up a bar in a small town in Ohio called “The Gay Bar” but it wasn’t a gay bar. But as gays became more visible in the coming years, his grandfather changed it to the “Twin Rivers Tavern.” It’s funny that fate allowed him to have two gay grandsons!

Today he works at Minibar, a gay bar in Chicago known for their sexy male bartenders.

Listen as we talk about what it means to drink responsibly, how to avoid those nasty hangovers and clear up some misconceptions on mixing your drinks.

True stories about boozing it up from Chicago’s gay bars plus questions from you in our audience! Click here for a photo gallery from the event (pictures by Fausto Fernós and Rick Aiello).

The podcast that comes with a little extra sauce on the side- Feast of Fools.

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