• Doctor who implanted the now famous OctoMom has another patient expecting quads, all while the target of an investigation by the California Board of Medicine.
• A U.S. (Republican) Senator extols the benefits of SCHIP legislation.
• A new drug in development shows “promise” in the treatment of the most common cardiac rhythm abnormality. What ever happened to digoxin?
• U of Maryland researchers begin search for cure of common cold.
• New England Journal of Medicine dispatch (sorry, subscription req’d): will stem cells eliminate the need for AIDS drugs?

The stem cell donor was among the 1 percent of Caucasians who have the variant gene that lacks a section known as CCR5 that helps the AIDS virus enter a cell, according to a report today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Doctors in Berlin hoped that putting the donor’s stem cells in the patient would rebuild his immune system and blood cells so they would lack the CCR5 piece.

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