Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Gut Microbes Could Play Role in HIV Infection
msn.comHIV? A small, new study suggests the answer may be yes. The intriguing possibility stems from a detailed analysis of the gut bacteria ("microbiomes") of 55 men, all of whom indicated they have sex with other men.
About half of the men went on to become infected with HIV; the other half did not. And investigators found notable pre-infection differences in the amount of certain gut bacteria found in the two groups. “This might suggest that there is a connection between these gut bacteria and HIV risk,” said study author Dr.
Jennifer Fulcher. She is an assistant professor and staff physician in the department of medicine’s division of infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Fulcher explained that prior research had already indicated “that people with HIV can have different gut bacteria than those without. ” But do those changes occur before or after HIV infection?
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