The Scandal of fake Malaria drugs

May 24th, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Just as the world has been trying to take a real stab at eradicating malaria comes news that the effort is being undermined in a critical area. It turns out that over a third of the anti-malaria drugs being distributed in Southeast Asia are fake and ineffective and a similar percentage in Africa are [...]

Transgender Tuesdays: Help Preserve A Piece Of San Francisco History

May 9th, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

There’s a little piece of San Francisco history – special to this wonderful city – that isn’t really all that well known except in a few communities. Transgender Tuesdays. 18 years ago a team of HIV providers at Tom Waddell Health Center and trans activists from every ethnicity broke the mold by providing something crucially [...]

News For Your Heart and Your Brain

May 3rd, 2012 | Category: Uncategorized | One comment

Aspirin! (Photo credit: (adam) THEO)

There have been two pieces of medical news this week that seem to be unrelated but do in fact have one thing in common – your heart. First up, we knew that aspirin was good for your heart but we didn’t know just how good. A new study shows [...]