opinion
Aftermaths
I worry about my friends and colleagues… and myself.
Kent Sepkowitz is an infectious-disease specialist in New York City. He has contributed to The New York Times, Slate, and, oh-so-briefly, O magazine. He also writes academic medical articles that are at times pretty tough sledding.
Unregulated
Temp Patterson used non-FDA approved silicone implants without notifying his surgical patients—and now 16 women have sued.
NOT SO FAST
When researchers declare they’ve found a disease or bacteria’s Achilles’ heel, be skeptical.
NIGHTMARE
Demi Wright’s pregnancy tests were positive, but she wasn’t pregnant—she had a rare cancer.
PANDEMICS
Should Hope Solo boycott Rio? Probably not. But here’s what you should know about the virus.
MICROBE WARS
There’s growing evidence that HIV is mutating to become resistant to antiviral drugs—but scientists shouldn’t panic just yet.
SCARY
Like any virus that enters the bloodstream, Zika can be sexually transmitted. But mosquitoes should remain our biggest worry.
MEDICAL MYSTERY
Does it cause birth defects? Can it be sexually transmitted? Why new outbreaks usually stump the experts.
BITTEN
There are at least a dozen cases here of the virus that’s been linked to a scary birth defect. Latin America is terrified but the U.S. shouldn’t be—yet.
TRAVEL WARNING
We still don’t know enough about Brazil’s Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects and a paralytic condition called Guillain-Barré.
