Only 28 percent of Americans with HIV are getting optimal care Only slightly more than a quarter of Americans infected with the AIDS virus are getting the form of medical care that maximizes their life expectancy, according to a new estimate. The goal of AIDS treatment is to suppress growth of HIV until the virus [...]
Medical Mysteries: Abdominal pain has been diagnosed, but it’s not curable For years before the identity of her long-standing problem was revealed, Hannah Love’s family had its own name for the periodic, disabling episodes: “Hannah’s stomach thing.” The attacks, which first struck when she was 3, would gradually progress from discomfort to a crescendo of [...]
What’s the carbon footprint of your winter travels? As winter sets in, Washingtonians’ thoughts are likely to drift to a lounge chair somewhere in the Caribbean or out in the Pacific. Sounds good, right? I bet you don’t want anyone ruining that image by telling you how much a winter escape would harm the environment. [...]
AIDS deaths and new infections continue to fall in most parts of the world The number of people dying of AIDS around the world declined last year for the third year in a row, at the same time that the fraction of people getting treatment for the infection reached almost 50 percent. Both facts are [...]
Landing on Mars is hard, but another mission to the Red Planet is about to begin NASA officials were asked some years ago to catalogue the number of technical actions and successful communications necessary to fly a spacecraft safely from Earth to Mars. The number: about 10,000. And that was for an orbiter, as opposed [...]