Blogs
A Light in the Darkness
Much of the news today can be disheartening, to say the least.
FEBRUARY 25, 2026
Keep Fighting the Good Fight
Managing editor Marie Rosenthal, MS, announces her retirement.
DECEMBER 23, 2025
Did Linking Autism to Tylenol Give Vaccines a Reprieve?
I was hoping that when HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. linked autism to acetaminophen, people would stop ...
OCTOBER 7, 2025
The AI of Emotional Support Chickens
The experts for our cover story made me see the value of AI’s ability to comb quickly through massive data ...
SEPTEMBER 11, 2025
HIV Research at a Crossroads: Defunding Is Not the Way Through
Today HIV research is at a crossroads, but defunding will ensure that it is not the Americans who will travel down ...
JUNE 29, 2025
Idaho: A ‘Pioneer’ of Social Change
I predict that Idaho will be a trendsetter! Yes, you read that right. Idaho, not New York, not California—Idaho. ...
APRIL 24, 2025
History Repeats Itself
It turns out that mask mandiates were not such a radical idea; mask wearing in public had been mandated ...
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Why We Vaccinate
Since one of the leading successes of modern medicine—vaccination—is under attack, I thought it might ...
DECEMBER 14, 2024
Viruses—Outnumbering the Stars
My first encounter with the power of a virus took place when I was 11 years old. I contracted a relatively mild ...
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Where Has All the Joy Gone?
I've loved talking to ID specialists because they have been uniformly excited and intellectually stimulated by ...
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Who Will Save the World Next Time?
Infectious disease physicians, pharmacists, nurses, microbiologists and researchers save people’s lives every ...
AUGUST 21, 2024
More Options Than Ever, But Are They Enough?
Today’s ART not only provides options to patients but has turned a disease that was the second leading cause ...
JUNE 12, 2024
