Thursday, May 10, 2012

Met with old friend Ron Dellums (Former Chair of House Armed Services Committee and former Mayor of Oakland). He has retired from politics and wanted to chat with me about opportunities in consulting in global Health. He had come on the original trip with Tommy Thompson in 2002 to Africa. I referred him to Stewart Simonson. Reviewed data with Ian Lipkin over the phone of study that he coordinated. Data showed that the prior studies from Judy Vitkovits and Harvey Alter/Shy Lo indicating a connection with XMRV/MLV and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome were in fact artifact and there is no connection. Appeared on The NewsHour interviewed by Ray Suarez on the positive recommendation of the FDA Advisory Committee to approve Truvada as PrEP.