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Truvada, an FDA-approved drug to help prevent HIV infection, is among the AIDS drugs that fill pharmacy shelves at the Whitman-Walker clinic, a Washington, D.C., community health center. Astrid Riecken/MCT/Landov hide caption

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Preventing HIV With Medicine Can Carry A Stigma

No doctor would refuse to prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins to patients because they're overweight. But despite guidelines, some doctors aren't offering preventive drugs to those at risk for HIV.

By selecting for a slightly different shape in the scales of the wing, scientists bred a population of brown butterflies into blueness. Antonia Monteiro/Yale University hide caption

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Butterfly Shifts From Shabby To Chic With A Tweak Of The Scales

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Paul Herringshaw says farmers like him have been taking steps to reduce crop runoff for years. Sarah Jane Tribble/WCPN hide caption

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Lake Erie's Toxic Bloom Has Ohio Farmers On The Defensive

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The UCLA campus was flooded last week after a 30-inch water main broke. The city of Los Angeles is on a 300-year replacement plan for its water system. Mike Meadows/AP hide caption

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If A Water Main Isn't Broke, Don't Fix It (For 300 Years?)

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Truvada, an FDA-approved drug to help prevent HIV infection, is among the AIDS drugs that fill pharmacy shelves at the Whitman-Walker clinic, a Washington, D.C., community health center. Astrid Riecken/MCT/Landov hide caption

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Preventing HIV With Medicine Can Carry A Stigma

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Members of Doctors Without Borders put on protective gear in Conakry, Guinea. Cellou Binani/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Albert Camus And The Search For Meaning In The Midst Of Ebola

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In 1972, John Wojtowicz robbed a bank to pay for his lover Ernie's sex-reassignment surgery. The robbery and his subsequent imprisonment inspired the movie Dog Day Afternoon. Seed & Spark hide caption

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The Shaggy Story Of A Real-Life 'Dog'

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