Taking the Pulse: Medical Ethics and Morality
Whether it's a patient's so-called "right-to-die," or the pitfalls of genetic engineering, many medical questions and issues extend into the slippery realm of medical ethics and morality. One of the most basic questions concerns the physician's obli...
Taking the Pulse: AIDS Walk
The purpose of AIDS Walk is to support the work being done by community-based organizations, like AIDS Project Los Angeles. These are groups that provide an array of HIV/AIDS-related services for individuals and families, including home health care,...
Sex and Sexuality: HIV/AIDS
The impact of sexually transmitted diseases turned far darker than ever before in the early 1980's with the advent and proliferation of the human immunodeficiency virus or "HIV" and "AIDS." Although many new and powerful drugs have proved to be the...
Taking the Pulse: AIDS: The Battle at Home and Abroad
One of the most critical breakthroughs in medicine was the ability to test for and detect the presence of HIV without having to wait for the onset of physical symptoms. And there have been remarkable strides in the development of drugs used in the f...