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A look at new AIDS treatments, potential cure
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Dec 23, 2014
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A look at new AIDS treatments, potential cure
In his latest piece for The New Yorker, medical writer Jerome Groopman explores new treatments, including a strategy scientists call "shock and kill."
Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected T cell. Credit: NIAID
Scanning electromicrograph of an HIV-infected T cell. Credit: NIAID
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In his latest piece for The New Yorker, medical writer Jerome Groopman explores new treatments, including a strategy scientists call "shock and kill."

There was a time when being diagnosed with HIV was a death sentence. Now, there's talk of a cure. 

In his latest piece for The New Yorker, medical writer Jerome Groopman explores new treatments, including a strategy scientists call "shock and kill." He joins Take Two with more.