HIV/AIDS "Somewhere among the million children who go to New York's publicly financed schools is a seven-year-old child suffering from AIDS. A special health and education panel had decided, on the strength of the guidelines issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control, that the child would b...

Understanding a Killer Of Millions By Sara is a twenty two year old Caucasian female. Sara was diagnosed with HIV seven years ago, but recently started antiretroviral therapy when her viral load went over 100,000 and her T cell count dropped below 140. She began on a triple combination therapy r...

Tuberculosis, SARS, Lyme Disease Through out history there have been countless diseases, viruses and infections that have affected man's well being. Innumerable cases of people's health being threatened and the possibility of their lives being put at risk. There have also been many...

Introduction Opioids are known to affect the immune system and their use often results in harmful consequences. For example, higher than normal rates of infections such as skin abscesses, thrombophlebitis, septicemia, bacterial endocarditis, tetanus, and malaria have been observed in narcotic addict...