HIV

Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 86 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

A case in which three women contracted HIV in 2018 from a cosmetic procedure (I) at an unlicensed spa in New Mexico back is the subject of a

Short answer, the blood supply is safe, and the bans now are more individually based and in step with other countries like Canada. Let’s take these one at a time.

He was also a man of courage, not afraid of attack by those whose moral stance opposed his scientific evaluations, even as they conflicted with his values. Staying true to science was his lodestar. Where are such heroes today?

As Professor Katherine Seley-Radtke (1) and I wrote last July in an op

Last month, we reported on an earth-shattering documentary not-so-subtly titled Seattle Is Dying.

Have you ever wondered why mosquito-transmitted infections were responsible for shutting down the first attempt to build the Panama Canal (rampant yellow fever) or are able to kill hundreds of thousands of children (malaria) each year in Afri

Remember Gilead, that wicked company that dared to cure hepatitis C and made a bunch of money doing so? If this doesn't ring a bell, go back a couple of decades.

In October, I wrote about the release of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) annual

Dr. Henry Heimlich, thoracic surgeon and creator of the famed maneuver that saves people from choking to death, died at the age of 96.