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Category: HEALTH


How Obamacare repeal would hurt LGBT people

November 22, 2016

November 22, 2016 3,723

BY CHRIS JOHNSON  |  Amid persistent fears that a Donald Trump administration would roll back LGBT advances seen under President...

Trump’s “Fifth Avenue White House” designed by a gay man who died of AIDS in 1985

November 21, 2016

November 21, 2016 4,109

BY TROY MASTERS | There’s a lot to be said for an interior design execution that survives three wives and...

Iran’s Treatment of Trans People: A Double Edged Sword

November 15, 2016

November 15, 2016 330

BY KEVIN SCHUMACHER  (aka Hossein Alizedah)  |  Iran – an Islamic theocracy that criminalizes consensual same-sex relations, forces women to...

California faces healthcare crisis if Trump scraps Obamacare

November 9, 2016

November 9, 2016 987

BY CHAD TERHUNE  |  California has a lot to lose if President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-led Congress fulfill their...

Some insurers aim to reject HIV patients by offering poor drug coverage, say Feds

October 24, 2016

October 24, 2016 3,640

BY MICHELLE ANDREWS  |  The health law prohibits insurers from discriminating against people with serious illnesses, but some marketplace plans...

Syphilis rates highlighted as CDC reports first highly resistant gonorrhea

September 22, 2016

September 22, 2016 904

BY TROY MASTERS  |  Largely ignored in the excitement of possibility that Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), the anti-HIV daily tablet, could...

Frontline generation in the fight against AIDS enters golden years, so now what?

September 18, 2016

September 18, 2016 4,105

BY JEFF TAYLOR  |  During the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic the idea that you could become infected and still...

The view from Christodora House, overlooking an epidemic

September 14, 2016

September 14, 2016 3,215

Since it came out in early August, Tim Murphy’s book Christodora, which chronicles half a dozen intersecting lives in New...

Their gay wedding at L.A. Veterans Administration Hospital will move you

September 8, 2016

September 8, 2016 161

BY TROY MASTERS  |  (An update to this story is posted here and a version of this story was also published...

TALKING POINT: Hook-up apps have a public health responsibility

August 27, 2016

August 27, 2016 387

BY JIM KEY, Chief Marketing Officer  |  Engaging naked guys in bathhouses wasn’t a job for the shy or prudish, but...