Children Who Give Care Are Overlooked.

Charlie and A.J. Poole were 10 and 9 years old in 2013 when their grandmother, Helen Pomakoy, moved in with them.

Medical Schools Explore Spirituality.

When Kristen Moser enrolled in the Stritch School of Medicine at Loyola University Chicago, she said she was “subconsciously searching for an outlet to explore what it means to be a Christian.” Fortunately, she found one in the school’s Physician’s Vocation Program.

Human bone marrow: a reservoir for "enhanced effector memory" CD8+ T cells with potent recall function.

The role of human bone marrow (BM) CD8+ T cells in the immune response to viral Ags is poorly defined. We report here the identification and characterization of a functionally enhanced effector memory CD8+ T cell population (TEM) in the BM of patients undergoing total joint replacement for osteoarthritis. These BM-derived TEM differ strikingly from correlate cells in peripheral blood (PB), expressing elevated levels of CD27, HLA-DR, CD38, CD69, and unique patterns of chemokine receptors.

Risky business: the cultural construction of AIDS risk groups.

AIDS researchers and policy makers have often employed the concept of 'culture' to characterize 'high risk groups' and explain why members of these groups continue to practice 'risky behavior.' We argue that the widespread interest in ethnography tends to reflect a usage of the concept of culture that distances and subordinates. People with AIDS are portrayed as either minority street people abandoned by friends and family or as white gay men who live within a gay community, and in either case as socially deviant.

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura with optic disk neovascularization, vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment, and optic atrophy.

A 33-year-old woman had thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. She developed optic atrophy and bilateral neovascularization of the disk with extensive vitreous hemorrhage that progressed to traction and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.