Southwest Missouri and the epidemic that no one saw coming

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Most people don’t know that a Missouri boy died of what is now believed to have been AIDS more than a decade before the virus was officially identified. In late 1968, Robert Rayford, a shy 15-year-old Black boy from St. Louis, arrived at the city hospital with swollen legs and genitals, severe […]

Scott Gottlieb says Hepatitis B vaccine birth dose prevents chronic infection

As the CDC vaccine panel voted last week to stop recommending the birth dose of the Hepatitis B vaccine, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who now serves on the boards of Pfizer and United Healthcare, told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the birth dose is ” almost 99% effective at preventing that chronic […]

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