HIV Prevention in a Pill?

Yesterday an FDA advisory panel recommended approval of Truvada for pre-exposure phylaxis (PrEP) of HIV.  While many in the HIV and AIDS medical and research community support the move, many others fear that it will reduce the use of condoms, which are critical for...

Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients on the Rise

Kansas is one of the most recent states to try to pass laws requiring welfare recipients to submit to drug testing.  Although there are many opponents who claim that this will cost the state too much money to test all of these people, in the long run this will help to...

Drug Testing Companies Are Getting More Effective

If you were hoping that your heroin use was tough to catch, you could be in trouble.  In October of last year the US Department of Transportation (DOT) changed their regulations for drug testing, lowering the cutoff levels for amphetamines and cocaine and adding the...

Research Offers Hope for HIV Cure

Could bone marrow transplants be the answer to HIV?  We continue to hope and researchers continue to work on finding the cure for HIV.  The HIV epidemic continues in the United States prompting President Obama’s recent strategy on fighting it.  56,000 people...