The search for a "Patient Zero"--Popularly understood to be an epidemic's first infected case--has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the ...
The HIV/AIDS epidemic spiked in the 1980s, resulting in the death of over 100,000 people from 1981 to 1990, making an irreversible mark on our world from a social, medical, and political perspective.
Among the dignitaries and invited guests at the memorial for the late Senator Dianne Feinstein in San Francisco on Thursday is Dr. Anthony Fauci, who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with the then-San ...
The roadmap to fighting Alzheimer’s disease is a matter of updating government policy to match the current science.
HIV is a slow-moving time bomb. Unlike Ebola, which infects and kills people quickly — and then disappears just as quickly — the HIV epidemic has become so good at killing people in part because it ...
It seems World AIDS Day comes earlier every year. Yeah, that's a stupid joke. But, let's face it, as December holidays go, AIDS Day will never compete with Christmas, Hanukkah,... It seems World AIDS ...