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Don't delay: Study confirms early treatment is best for HIV

 
Hyderabad, India No relief from the heat An Indian man rests inside a concrete pipe Wednesday during another scorching day. The stifling heat has killed more than 1,100 people in the past month in southern India, officials said Wednesday. In the past two days, temperatures have dropped marginally but still hover around 113 degrees. Public announcements have urged people to drink water and try to avoid going outdoors during the hottest hours of the day. Weather officials say the sweltering temperatures are likely to continue for at least another week.
Hyderabad, India No relief from the heat An Indian man rests inside a concrete pipe Wednesday during another scorching day. The stifling heat has killed more than 1,100 people in the past month in southern India, officials said Wednesday. In the past two days, temperatures have dropped marginally but still hover around 113 degrees. Public announcements have urged people to drink water and try to avoid going outdoors during the hottest hours of the day. Weather officials say the sweltering temperatures are likely to continue for at least another week.
Published May 28, 2015

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A major international study says don't delay in seeking HIV treatment: Starting medication soon after diagnosis helps keep people healthy longer. People who started anti-AIDS drugs while their immune system was still strong were far less likely to develop AIDS or other serious illnesses than if they waited until blood tests showed their immune system was starting to weaken, the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday. The findings are preliminary, but the NIH found them so compelling that it stopped the study a year early, so that all the participants could receive medication as researchers continue to track their health.

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A federal appeals court struck down one of the nation's toughest abortion restrictions Wednesday, agreeing with a lower court that ruled an Arkansas law unconstitutionally burdens women by banning abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy if a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with doctors who challenged the law, ruling that abortion restrictions must be based on a fetus' ability to live outside the womb. The ruling upholds a decision of a federal judge in Arkansas who struck down the 2013 law before it could take effect, shortly after legislators approved the change.

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A fossil find adds another twig to the human evolutionary tree, giving further evidence the well-known "Lucy" species had company in what is now Ethiopia, a new study says. A lower jaw, plus jaw fragments and teeth, dated at 3.3 million to 3.5 million years old, were found in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia four years ago. That shows a second human ancestor lived in about the same area and time frame as Lucy's species, researchers said. Researchers announced the find In a paper released Wednesday by the journal Nature. But nobody knows just how it's related to our own branch of the family tree, said Yohannes Haile-Selassie of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, who led the discovery team.

By the Numbers

795M The number of hungry people globally today, or about one person out of every nine, the United Nations reported Wednesday. That's down from about 1 billion 25 years ago, despite a surge in population growth.

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