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Anyone interested in participating in the study must have a CD4 count of 50 or less and under the care HIV primary care physician.

Participants must also agree to donate their brain and spinal cord upon death for autopsy.

The Texas NeuroAIDS Research Center is located at UTMB in Galveston; Legacy Community Health Services is located at 214 Westheimer Rd.

For more information, please contact Vanessa Johnson at 713-830-3035.

Nancy Ford named editor of Houston Voice Nancy Ford has been tapped as editor of the Houston Voice, after a lengthy career editing Houston gay publications.

A native of Ohio, Ford moved to Houston in 1981 to pursue a career in stand-up comedy and journalism.

Her comedic commentary, What a World, has been published by many gay publications nationwide, beginning in 1986 with the Lubbock-based Dimensions, a monthly magazine for lesbians.

Ford also contributed to Houston Woman magazine, Houston Forum and This Week in Texas and helped create OutSmart magazine in 1994.

She held editorial positions with Texas’s statewide weekly publications, the Texas Triangle and TXT Newsmagazine, which closed in 2005.

Houston Voice is a publication of Window Media, which also publishes the Washington Blade, the New York Blade, the Southern Voice, David Atlanta, Express Gay News, Genre Magazine and 411 Magazine.

Ford succeeds Eric Ervin as editor of the Houston Voice.

Ervin, wh...

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"We can help maintain them in their home with the activities of daily living." She said CareMinders services offer relief for a spouse caring for his or her partner who is ill."We can supplement care-giving to relieve stress so both spouses can stay in their home," Jewell said.CareMinders staff are carefully selected and go through a background check including fingerprint checks.

Jewell said her staff are licensed and bonded by CareMinders that also offers workers compensation benefits.Jewell said her new business is a wonderful meld of her 25 years in the social work field combined with her experience in hospital care, acute care, long-term care and the insurance industries.Her goal is to provide the community with dependable reliable services with the client's best care and interest in mind.CareMinders is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

and Jewell is on-call 24/7.

The number is 423-0616.Fallon CareGivers offers another home health care opportunity for Churchill County residents.Owner Betsy Wollett has been in business 10 years offering care in the privacy of the client's home on a 24-hours basis or as needed."We offer everything from companionship to hospice and are well known by reference," she said.Fallon CareGivers, like CareMinders, does background checks on its staff to try to get the highest quality of in-home providers.Wollet said this background and reference checking is a necessity, c...

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Testifying in his own defense, Mr.

Figueroa denied the allegations.

He said he cleaned the woman up after she “soiled herself” and was helping her back into bed when the co-worker, Matthew Smith, came into the room.

Mr.

Figueroa acknowledged that the woman was naked from the waist down, but denied that his genitals were exposed, as Mr.

Smith alleged.

According to trial testimony, the victim later complained to a nurse about a “test” she said Mr.

Figueroa had performed on her.

The woman, now reportedly suffering from advanced ba href=/dementia/a/b, did not testify during the three-day trial.

Police Officer Ryan Malatos said Mr.

Figueroa first denied raping the woman after his arrest, then conceded he had thought about sexually assaulting her and was “preparing her for sex,” but did not follow through.

In his closing argument to the jury of seven men and five women, defense lawyer John A.

Bosk noted that no physical evidence linked Mr.

Figueroa to the crimes with which he was charged.

Mr.

Bosk attacked Mr.

Smith’s credibility and suggested that the woman’s statements were “ambiguous” and unreliable.

“The bottom line is you have a case where it’s ‘he said, she said,’ except she isn’t here,” he told the jurors.

“He never did anything of a sexual nature to this woman.” “The reliability test is you, your common sense, your everyday experiences,” Assistant District Attorney Anthony J.

Marotta said to the jury in his final summation.

“We’ve got an eyewitness to a ...