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The LGBT Health Movement, 40 Years Since Homosexuality Was a Mental Illness
Beyond HIV, the major public health issues -- including higher rates of alcoholism, cancer, depression, smoking, suicide, and violence -- still stem from inequality.
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Yeast: Love and Fear, Death and Beer
Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.
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Should the Modern Man Be Taking Testosterone?
Testosterone deficiency is exceedingly less common than marketing campaigns and "you only think you feel fine" culture would have us believe.
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Doctor, Not Chaplain: How a Deeply Religious Surgeon General Taught a Nation About HIV
The late C. Everett Koop chose to fight the AIDS epidemic at its 1980s outset, despite resistance from the conservative base that brought him into the office.
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The Power of Choosing Resilience
Psychological conditions that are epidemic among urban gay and bisexual men warrant conscious efforts to foster self-esteem, positive relationships, and social support.
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An Optimistic Era for Global Infectious Disease Control
The newly appointed director of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria believes international health efforts are at the cusp of containing these epidemics.
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How Close Are We to an AIDS-Free Generation?
Where we stand on what President Obama has declared an achievable goal -- and a top U.S. global priority
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The ACLU AIDS Project: Decades On, Still Separate and Unequal
Unfounded fears echo throughout policy, health care, education -- pretty much everywhere.
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Should Everyone HIV+ Be Required to Disclose That to Every Sexual Partner?
45 U.S. states have made failing to disclose one's HIV status a criminal offense.
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The Prospects for a 'Sterilizing' HIV Cure
Current treatments keep the virus in check, as opposed to those that could completely eliminate it.
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The Mysterious Past and Present of Witch Hazel
One of the few products that's both FDA-approved and endorsed by real witches
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Revisiting the Splendor of Thoreau's 'Autumnal Tints,' 150 Years Later
"What School of Design can vie with this?" he asked in the pages of the Atlantic in 1862.
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Breaking the Cycle of Prescription Drug Costs
Examining the roots of the dysfunction, and how we can change it without passing on medication costs to the sickest among us
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No One Should Die From AIDS
How far we've come, and how far we have to go before an AIDS-free generation
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Every Man a King: Henry VIII's Worst Affliction Is on the Rise in America
Gout may sound like an 18th-century affliction, but the number of Americans suffering from the painful inflammatory condition has doubled in the past few decades.
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Legal Drug-Pushing: How Disease Mongers Keep Us All Doped Up
By manipulating our fear of suffering and death, big pharmaceutical companies are able to keep us coming back for expensive medications.
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Curing Diabetes: How Type 2 Became an Accepted Lifestyle
The disease is big business, and many have been convinced that managing it forever is their only option. But a cure is often possible.
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Is There Still an AIDS Crisis in the U.S.? It Depends on Who You Are
There are millions of people around the world living with HIV/AIDS, but only a fraction -- those that can afford it -- have proper treatment
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'We're Going to Be in Trouble': AIDS Groups Plan for Funding Cuts
For 30 years now, AIDS service organizations have played the role of advisor, caregiver, and friend, but they need to consolidate -- or die
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AIDS: Still a Gay Disease in America
Even after thirty years, HIV/AIDS remains out of control, still very much a crisis, and ACT UP's Larry Kramer, who chooses all of his words carefully, wants to start calling it a plague again