Bongekile Sokhela consults with Dr. Richard Lessells at Hlabisa Provincial Hospital in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. Sokhela has both HIV and tuberculosis — a brutal, one-two punch that’s exacerbating epidemics of both diseases in South Africa. Photo by William Brangham/PBS NewsHour
On a Wednesday morning in April, a line of 600 HIV-infected people snakes through the hallways to the first waiting room of the Themba Lethu…
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White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest presented maps showing the danger of Zika this week. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
If history repeats itself, the U.S. media will make a whoop dee doo out of the first confirmed case of Zika virus transmission that takes place…
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This sonogram shows a rhesus macaque fetus 25 days after being infected. Sarah Kohn/Kathleen Antony/Saverio Capuano/Jennifer Post
By far the most alarming feature of the Zika virus now marching across South America and the Caribbean is its threat to fetuses. Last month…
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More people now die from hepatitis C in the United States than 60 other infectious diseases—including HIV and tuberculosis—combined. Two new reports from the…
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Pregnant women who are infected with Zika virus can give birth to malformed children. Frank de Kleine (CC BY 2.0)
In the most optimistic scenario, a Zika vaccine could prove its worth by the start of 2018, Anthony Fauci, head of the U.S. National Institute…
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Rock singer Prince performs at the Forum in Inglewood, California, during his opening show, 18 February 1985. AP Photo/Liu Heung Shing
Whenever a celebrity dies under murky circumstances, speculations run wild. The bulk of news reports about the rock star Prince’s death yesterday suggested influenza may…
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GSK to make cancer drugs more accessible in poor countries
Andrew Witty, who has headed GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) since 2008, recently announced that he would retire in March 2017. But the 51-year-old Witty, a marathon runner…
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A man in the Guinean capital Conakry receiving the experimental Ebola vaccine in April 2015. Idrissa Soumaré
The Ebola epidemic that began ravaging three West African countries in December 2013 has come to an end. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health…
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In 1963, Scott Halstead was living in Thailand and studying dengue and chikungunya in children. Courtesy of Scott Halstead
In a 1999 interview published in The Lancet, Scott Halstead said that his greatest regret was not having won the Nobel Prize, his worst habit…
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