Every year, in both the United States and Europe, just about 1% of all emergency room visits are the result of a dog or cat bite.  That percentage may seem small but a new report in the journal, Lancet Infectious…

To best fight the ravages of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, it must begin manufacturing its own supply of generic drugs, according to Michel Sidibé, a 57-year-old resident of the African nation, Mali.  Sidibé has just been named Executive Director…

Kerry Thomas, 45, has been to prison twice for deliberately infecting others with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and now he’s out again on parole.  This concerns the Ada County, Idaho, deputy prosecutor enough that she’s filed charges with the…

As many as 69% of colon cancer patients in a single study say they turned to the internet and other media outlets for information on their diagnosis.  These media-educated patients get better treatment and newer medications, both of which improves…

The February 15 issue of the medical journal, ‘Nature Medicine,’ carries the full report of a clinical trial on a gene therapy for treating human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).  The therapy has proven so promising it is being hailed as a…

In June, people on three continents will know if the pills they’ve been taking to prevent HIV infection were the real thing or placebos.  As the test of tenofovir, said to be an HIV prevention pill, nears the end of…

Richard Batista, a New York surgeon, was very much in love with Dawnell, his wife and mother of his three children, in 2001 when he donated one of his own kidneys in order to save her life.  Unfortunately, this tale…

Winter has come with a vengeance across much of the United States and Canada, leaving fire departments everywhere on heightened alert as people struggle to stay warm inside.  Outside, however, as the snow piles up, fire hydrants are becoming buried,…

Jordan Taylor was buckled up, snug and secure, in the back seat of his mom’s car when a dump truck ran a stop sign and slammed into the family car.  The force of the crash was so violent Jordan’s head…

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects every American from discrimination in the workplace when religious differences surface.  A growing and vocal group of healthcare workers say they are being discriminated against, in spite of the 1964 act, when their…

That’s the question abuzz in the medical community as doctors around the globe discuss a bone marrow transplant, performed in Berlin, that is said to have cured the patient of AIDS. Twenty months after the transplant, some critics suggest the…

Residents of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin can rest easy when admitted to the region’s hospitals.  According to the HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, the hospitals in this, the East North Central region, are the best in the…

Recent announcement of the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine marks, for some, the end of a long-running controversy surrounding which team of researchers are to be credited with discovering the AIDS virus. Two French researchers were named, along…

Painstaking research using modern genetic technologies has placed the origin of the HIV/AIDS pandemic sweeping the world today at somewhere between 1884 and 1924, much earlier than the 1930 point of origin previously estimated.  The same period of time saw…