This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the start of the HIV epidemic in 1981, over 700,000 Americans have lost their lives to AIDS. Being infected used to be a death sentence. But now, 40 years…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The latest COVID-19 variant to rise to the level of concern was named on Nov. 26: Omicron. A lot of work needs to be done to understand the transmissibility, severity, and immune…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s a year and a half into the COVID-19 pandemic and we have all witnessed the incredible effects mask wearing has on slowing the transmission of the coronavirus. The United…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Human activity can disrupt wildlife habitats in such a way that it leads to the emergence of new animal-to-human transmitted diseases like COVID-19, in a process known as zoonosis, researchers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Allowing teens to consent to getting the human papillomavirus vaccine without parental involvement could be an important strategy for improving vaccination rates, a new study shows. The strategy is already…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Vaccines are one of the most powerful and cost-effective public health interventions in the history of medicine. Each year, vaccines save millions of lives and billions of dollars in indirect…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One night, a woman I’ll call Tonya got a compliment from a guy when she was out with her boyfriend. Tonya’s boyfriend cursed her because another man had complimented her.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the vaccines against Covid-19 first started rolling out less than a year ago, there was widespread hope that it signaled the beginning of the end of the pandemic. As we head…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the press noted that the delta variant of COVID-19 “is as transmissible as chickenpox.” As some researchers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Now that kids ages 5 to 11 are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination and the number of fully vaccinated people in the U.S. is rising, many people may be wondering what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers have developed a breast cancer risk model that could help close a critical gap in identifying the cancer earlier in Black women. In the United States, Black women are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The term herd immunity means that enough of a population has gained immunity to stifle a pathogen’s spread. You can think of herd immunity as being similar to fire starting…