Austerity kills: The hidden cost of cutting health care
From mining data sets over the past century and across the world, the numbers show the hidden cost of health spending cuts.
HIV/AIDS patients in NYC forced to choose between paying for rent or basic needs
Every month, Wanda Hernandez considers whether to use her cash for bills, rent or possibly medical care. Having lived [...]
Advocates push for law barring condoms as prostitution evidence
Some say cops are confiscating condoms and incorrectly using them as evidence.
More NY women dying in childbirth
Women in New York are 30 percent more likely to die in childbirth than they were just twelve years ago, according to a new report.
Tulsa patient speaks out after potential HIV exposure at ‘shop of horrors’ dental office
After news that 7,000 patients were potentially exposed to HIV from a dental office, a community in Tulsa is reeling in shock, fear and horror at the possibility of a health crisis.
7,000 people in Tulsa potentially exposed to HIV from ‘shop of horrors’ dentist office
In a terrifying urban legend-turned-reality, more than 7,000 people in Oklahoma may have been exposed to HIV after visiting a dentist officials say was working in horrific unsanitary conditions, complete with rusty tools and unsterilized needles.
Mass. doctor helped treat girl ‘cured’ of HIV
In what’s being called a ‘functional cure,’ doctors say a Mississippi girl born with HIV who received aggressive, early treatment now shows no signs of the virus that causes AIDS.
Mississippi child cured of HIV, amfAR says
The findings were announced in Atlanta on Sunday.