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The findings confirm that H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, has its greatest effect among gay and bisexual men of all races (53 percent of all new infections) and among African-American men and women

The findings confirm that HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has its greatest effect among gay and bisexual men of all races (53 percent of all new infections) and among African-American men and women.

If black America were a country, it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with the AIDS virus, the Black AIDS Institute, an advocacy group, reported Tuesday. Dr. Helene Gayle, president of CARE and a former director of H.I.V. prevention efforts at the disease control centers, told reporters on Tuesday that the United States needed to devote more resources to care for people with sexually transmitted diseases

If black America were a country, it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with the AIDS virus, the Black AIDS Institute, an advocacy group, reported on Tuesday.

Dr. Helene Gayle, president of CARE and a former director of HIV prevention efforts at the disease control centers, told reporters on Tuesday that the United States needed to devote more resources to care for people with sexually transmitted diseases.

In the meeting, experts spoke about surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, said the participant, Dr. Raymond Sawaya, chairman of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine and the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston

It was only four years after the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule by James Watson and Francis Crick, and one year after scientists had established that the correct number of human chromosomes was 46, a finding that helped genetics begin to flourish.

McKusick was also an early proponent of completely mapping the human genome, 34 years before the feat was achieved in 2003. He influenced the training of the vast majority of medical geneticists through his textbooks, which catalogued thousands of genetic disorders. In 1957, McKusick established a medical genetics clinic, the same year that Dr. Arno G. Motulsky started a similar clinic at the University of Washington. They are believed to be the first medical genetics clinics in the U.S. It was only four years after the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule by James Watson and Francis Crick, and one year after scientists had established that the correct number of human chromosomes was 46, a finding that helped genetics begin to flourish. As a cardiologist in the early 1950s, McKusick became fascinated with Marfan's syndrome, an inherited disorder in which affected patients show an array of signs, including long arms and legs and dislocated eye lenses. They often died of a rupture of the aorta, the body's main artery.