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There's a pill that can prevent HIV. So why isn't anybody taking it?
It's one of the best kept secrets in medicine. Many patients don't know about it. About one-third of primary care doctors have never even heard of it. One study has shown it can reduce the risk of contracting HIV by 92%. Yet<span style="color: Red;">*</span>less than 1% of those who could benefit are actually taking it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What is it. A pill, sold under the brand name Truvada, a prevention option called “pre-exposure prophylaxis,” or PrEP. Why don't more people know about it? Some of it has to do with practical barriers. State AIDS Drug Assistance Programs don't pay for it, and some state Medicaid programs don't either. Marketing is key. In New York, prescriptions for PrEP among people with Medicaid insurance jumped dramatically after the state launched a campaign to tell people about the medication. This bit of PR probably won't hurt either: Charlie Sheen's former girlfriend, Amanda Bruce, said she took PrEP<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to prevent him from infecting her with HIV.
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Here are the answers to some common questions about HIV, including medication and the quality of life for those diagnosed with HIV. USA TODAY
Pyramids, West Point, Syrian 'dogs.' Ben Carson is slipping
For the first time since early October, Ben Carson has dropped out of the top three in the weekly GOP Power Rankings. He's been on a roll with the outrageous. Like, saying Egypt's pyramids were actually built for grain storage. Or that he was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>offered a full scholarship to West Point, which he never applied to.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>And that some Syrian refugees are rabid dogs.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“Carson is cratering,” said Texas-based Matt Mackowiak. “Support was soft to begin with and his campaign was woefully unprepared for front-runner scrutiny.” Donald Trump, on the other hand, just keeps getting stronger. He got 18 first-place votes this week; Marco Rubio got seven and Ted Cruz got three.
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Ben Carson told an ABC News reporter on Monday that he “saw the film” of American Muslims cheering after the World Trade Center fell on 9/11. But his campaign tells The Daily Beast they’re “a bit of a loss” about what Carson meant by that. USA TODAY
Things just got a lot more complicated in the fight against ISIL
Turkey shot down a Russian warplane Tuesday, and it has<span style="color: Red;">*</span>caused a lot of tension in the global struggle over the future of Syria and the fate of the Islamic State. Explain. Turkey says the Russian aircraft breached its airspace.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Putin denies it, and says the plane was in Syria fighting ISIL.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Right as the plane went down, France's President Francois Hollande was about to sit down with President Obama at the White House to press Washington and Moscow to join in a united effort to combat the Islamic State in its home base in Syria. But the alliance he's trying to form is dicey. That’s because Russia, Turkey, the United States and France are all involved in Syria's 4-year-old civil war but support different factions, some of which are fighting each other. More on that here. The downing of the warplane by Turkey —<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a U.S. ally — illustrates how far Hollande is from his goal of bringing Moscow and Washington into his grand alliance.
Here's what consumers really want when it comes to a world full of self-driving cars
Attention Apple CEO<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Tim Cook. While rumor has it you're quietly planning to build a vehicle, consumers feel most comfortable with a self-driving car<span style="color: Red;">*</span>created through a partnership between an automotive manufacturer<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and a tech company. In a poll of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>6,000 respondents from 10 countries about their attitudes toward<span style="color: Red;">*</span>self-driving cars, 69% said they would be most interested in a product coming from an auto-tech joint venture. So, good news for car companies.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>If you're wondering what a successfully networked<span style="color: Red;">*</span>city of the transportation near-future could look like,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>picture this.
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A USA TODAY motion graphic showing what a city of the future may look like. Marco Della Cava, Ramon Padilla, Karl Gelles and Shannon Green, USA TODAY
NSYNC just kissed their sales record bye, bye, bye. And Adele just said hello to the biggest opening week in history
Everyone knew Adele's third album would be huge. We weren't necessarily prepared for just how huge. The British singer's 25 has sold 2.433 million copies in the USA since its Friday release, according to Nielsen Music. That gives it<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the biggest sales week ever<span style="color: Red;">*</span>since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking album sales in 1991. It bests the record previously set by NSYNC's No Strings Attached, which debuted with 2.416 million copies in 2000, Billboard reports. In just over three days, 25 is already the top-selling album of the year so far, outpacing Taylor Swift's blockbuster 1989.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Even without the streams.
She was absolutely pitch perfect.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: AP)
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Our favorite from the Day in Pictures.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Not to be confused with this.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
An Indonesian worker dries colored fabrics on a riverbank in Sukoharjo, Central Java, Indonesia. Indonesia's economy grew 4.73% in the third quarter of 2015, higher than the second quarter which was 4.67%, the Central Statistics Agency reported.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Ali Lutfi, European Pressphoto Agency)
Have you seen it?<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Daredevil climbers scale this Istanbul bridge.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
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This is a compilation of stories from across USA TODAY.
Contributing: Liz Szabo, John Bacon, Jane Onyanga-Omara, Oren Dorell,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Ledyard King, Patrick Ryan,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Marco della Cava, USA TODAY
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