Originally published in the Mercury's sister publication The Stranger, as part of its Love & Sex Issue.] On July 3, 1981, the ...

Millions would die from what doctors first called GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, a name that linked gayness with ...

Yoanna Pumpalova, MD People infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a substantially higher risk of certain types of cancer -Kaposi ...

The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for many ...

Pembrolizumab is under clinical development by Merck and currently in Phase I for Kaposi Sarcoma. According to GlobalData, Phase I drugs for Kaposi Sarcoma have an 84% phase transition success rate ...

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a low-grade vascular neoplasm mediated by the human herpesvirus-8. Only 1 clinical subtype, the endemic/African subtype, commonly affects the pediatric population.

(CNN) — Ozempic and Wegovy, the blockbuster but costly GLP-1 drugs often used for weight loss, are among the 15 medications that will be subject to the next round of Medicare price negotiations, the ...

excluding rare cases like mesothelioma and Kaposi sarcoma. Stratified analyses assessed sex-specific cancer incidence rates. PFAS data were sourced from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's ...

Certain types occur more often in certain parts of the body more often than others. For example, leiomyosarcomas are the most common type of sarcoma found in the abdomen (belly), while liposarcomas ...

ESOPHAGEAL CANDIDIASIS: A fungal infection of the esophagus, common in patients with AIDS, which often causes symptoms of dysphagia and odynophagia KAPOSI'S SARCOMA: A malignant vascular tumor ...