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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has released an 11-page "plan for science and innovation." Nature reports that the plan calls for doubling the funding of the National Institutes of Health over 10 years, and spells out science policies in more specific details than had been released previously.

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Although some doctors assume otherwise, a cocktail of drugs to slow the development of AIDS works as well in infected individuals who are injectable drug users as in other people with HIV, the AIDS virus, the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday.

The medical research agency noted that the cocktail has been "extremely effective" at slowing the progression of HIV infection to AIDS and at extending the lives and improving the quality of life of those with the virus.