From the Archives: President Obama Says, “Get Tested” …  President Obama on National HIV Testing Day In commemoration of the 14th Anniversary of National HIV Testing Day, the President and First Lady release a special video. June 26, 2009.  … Today is World AIDS Day. In the United States, roughly 1.2 million Americans are living […]

ePatient discusses how web-savvy patients are changing the practice of medicine A post today on the Medicine X blog features a thought-provoking conversation with Sarah Kucharski, ePatient and author of The Afternoon Nap Society. In the Q&A, which was written by Scope alumna Julia James, Kucharski discusses how being diagnosed with intimal fibromuscular dysplasia motivated her to become a patient advocate and offers her thoughts […]

A patient patient: Sarah Kucharski writes about life with fibromuscular dysplasia Over many years, through many moves, many medical appointments and many medications, Sarah Kucharski lived with excruciating stomach pain, gastrointestinal distress, high blood pressure and migraines. No doctor was able to provide an explanation for her progressing symptoms, and family members invented their own. […]

Celebrate Human Rights … … “Celebrate Human Rights! This video is part of the UN Human Rights Office social media campaign – a celebration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. Join us in celebrating Human Rights: www.celebratehumanrights.org www.facebook.com/unitednationshumanrights http://twitter.com/unrightswire Human Rights Day is marked annually on 10 […]

Presidential Proclamation — World AIDS Day, 2011   A red ribbon is hung from the North Portico of the White House to mark World AIDS Day, White House Photo, Chuck Kennedy ### Presidential Proclamation — World AIDS Day, 2011 December 01, 2011 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION On World […]

World AIDS Day reflections: Living beyond AIDS This week, I received a very heartening piece of news: Cyrus, one of the first orphans we met in Kenya some 10 years ago, is heading to the University of Nairobi to study biochemistry with an eye to becoming a doctor. This is a striking development, given Cyrus’ […]

New thinking about osteoarthritis, older people’s nemesis Osteoarthritis is easily the most common joint disease in the United States and in the world. Stanford immunologist and rheumatologist Bill Robinson, MD, PhD, says it’s a kind of physical counterpart to Alzheimer’s disease, in that both are debilitating – the former to the body and the latter to the […]

Study shows increase in health disparities among young Americans New research offers additional insights into health disparities in the United States. Findings published this month in the American Sociological Review show the gap between the least and most healthy has significantly increased among Americans born after 1980 and that health disparity tends to increase as people move […]

Guiding lights Harvard researcher creates neurons that illuminate as they fire In a culture of neurons genetically modified to express a protein derived from a Dead Sea microorganism, the fluorescence of the cells depends on the voltage across the cell membrane. An increase in voltage in the cell in pink caused its fluorescence to stand […]

Relief for stem cell transplant patients Graft-versus-host disease treatment results in improvement Dana-Farber Cancer Institute “More than half of patients who successfully undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplants [in which the blood-making tissue in the bone marrow is wiped out with chemotherapy and replaced with blood-forming stem cells from a donor] develop chronic GVHD,” says the […]