Today is World AIDS Day and it’s probably one of the awareness days closest to my heart, if not to say the one which is absolutely closest to my heart. I am part of the queer community and during my time as a conference organiser (quite a few of which were HIV/AIDS conferences), I met quite a few people who were infected in the 1970s/80s when no ( Read more... )

Whether you're a full time worker or you're in school, you know it's here. You can feel it in the air and even more so when the person next to you sneezes and you see globs of snot on their sleeve. Or worse their hands. And then papers get passed down that row and said offender hands it to you. You'd rather get a paper cut to the eyeballs than ( Read more... )

Awareness and Prevention

October in the United States is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. For more information go hereThere are a lot of initiatives going on right now to find the cause of breast cancer and who knows, within ten years there may be a genetic therapy for it, but the problem remains in the fact that the funding for research ( Read more... )