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As the rescue capsule brought each Chilean miner to the surface, they sprang from obscurity into the global spotlight — a type of attention that they never sought.

The 33 miners, who had been stuck for nearly 70 days inside a mine near Copiapo, Chile, will likely feel the crush of media requests and offers from book publishers, movie and television producers.

They will probably be peppered with questions from family, friends, neighbors, strangers and reporters.

When ordinary people are thrust into the spotlight, it can be disorienting and stressful. Read more…

A Department of Motor Vehicles branch in southeast Washington is offering testing for the disease under a pilot program aimed at educating residents and reducing stigma.

“We realize that this is a nontraditional setting, but this program is about normalizing HIV and extending testing opportunities,” said Angela Fulwood Wood, chief operations officer for nonprofit Family and Medical Counseling Service. “We chose the DMV because it offers a good cross-section of people.”

The test will be confidential, just like other HIV tests offered elsewhere, Wood said. It will be conducted by professionals and will not be part of DMV records.

“The DMV only provides space for the program,” she said. Read more…

The Tuskegee syphilis experiment of the 20th century is often cited as the most famous example of unethical medical research. Now, evidence has emerged that it overlapped with a shorter study, also sponsored by U.S. government health agencies, in which human subjects were unknowingly being harmed by participating in an experiment.

Research from Wellesley College professor Susan Reverby has uncovered evidence of an experiment in Guatemala that infected people with sexually transmitted diseases in an effort to explore treatments.

The U.S. government apologized for the research project on Friday, more than 60 years after the experiments ended. Read more…

Many young people believe that sports drinks are a healthy alternative to soda. STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Teenagers who are active are more likely to consume sports drinks than non-active peers
• Drinking sports drinks has been linked to eating more fruits and vegetables
• Sports drinks should not be consumed unless a teen has exercised vigorously

This marketing strategy seems to have worked.

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