In with the old, out with the mew

Keep your checklists handy because the 62nd Supplement to the American Ornithological Society’s Check-list of North American Birds, publishing today in Ornithology, includes numerous updates to the classification of the continent’s bird species. A few highlights from this year’s supplement, detailed below, include species splits for Mew Gull, Barred Owl, and Sedge Wren, among quite…

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ACTG announces publication of REPRIEVE sub-study in JAMA Network Open, providing insights into cardiovascular disease risk among people living with HIV

Los Angeles, Calif. – The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the largest global HIV research network, today announced that findings from a sub-study of REPRIEVE (A5332/A5332s, an international clinical trial studying heart disease prevention in people living with HIV) have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open (JAMA Network Open).…

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Gin from Cachaça Country

Gin, made around the world, comes in two basic styles: austere, juniper-forward London dry, and a more aromatic herbal or floral version. For a martini and perhaps even with tonic, it’s the London dry you’ll want and, more specifically, this alluringly subtle Brazilian gin, Amázzoni, newly available in the United States. It leans on botanicals…

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