Collecting My Thoughts

I've enjoyed listening to Becket Cook's podcasts. He's a celibate man who gave up the gay lifestyle 12 or 13 years ago after bec...

Demands for "health equity" for racial and ethnic groups is a push for more government control. The CDC reported in 2014 that the ...

This really isn't funny, but it may be the funny answer. The question was, on a “health” website, Why is the HIV rate so high among youn...

This week at Lakeside we have a foreign film series, but these are all in English and two are about international adoptions, Philomena (Brit...

The CDC has reported that men who have sex with men contract HIV at 44x the rate of men who don’t.  New syphilis cases are 81.7%  MSM. Durin...

I've been reading JAMA for about 30 years, and reports of using African women and children as lab animals never cease to surprise me, b...

“Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to bear the greatest burden of HIV infection in the United States. 1 I...

In 1984, the HIV virus was identified by the U.S. Public Health Service and French scientists. In 1985, a blood test to detect HIV was licen...

"Published research does not provide definitive answers about why new HIV infections among young, black/African American gay, bisexual,...

By race, age and risk group, young, black gay and bisexual men (ages 13-29) are the only population in the United States in which new HIV in...

Men who have sex with men is the primary way HIV/AIDS is spread.  Although less than 14% of the population, blacks (men and women) have 44...

Worldwide, hepatitis B virus (HBV) is the leading cause of chronic liver disease and death, accounting for up to half of all cases of cirrho...

"A design that calls for a grove of trees reflected infinitely by 12-foot-long mirrors was selected today for New York’s first large-sc...

The opening paragraph of an essay titled, "Disclosure" by Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky of Boston in the May 5, 2010 issue of JAMA was ...

No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, let’s not call this current Washington battle “health“ care. ObamaCare is technically a...

HIV alarmism has fiscal and behavorial consequences Sometimes, I don’t understand alarmists. On September 16, David R. Holtgrave, PhD Prof...

Abstinence--The Scarlet Letter of the Left There are few things as political as AIDS and poverty. And sexual abstinence pretty much wipes ou...

Taken any tests lately? Like HIV? Me either. At least, not that I know of. But apparently, according to CDC Guidelines health-care provid...

How the liberal media treated a Bush daughter About a year ago, I blogged about first daughter's new book on AIDS. Here's what libe...

The low down on the uptick in AIDS The newest JAMA isn’t available to me yet, but for the typical New York Times hysterical editorializing o...