US sanctions hurt basic research in India

What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us

T he sexual health of midlife women is a topic often overlooked by both primary care providers and researchers. Traditionally, sexual health research and risk reduction strategies have focused on younger women who have higher rates of sexually transmitted infection (STI) and unintended pregnancy.1,2 However, there is now evidence that midlife women are at greater risk of new STIs and unintended...

What we don't know might hurt us.

At age sixteen, Rodney Bruntmyer was sentenced to eight years in prison for setting a dumpster on fire.2 He was raped and then removed from, and against his wishes returned to, the general population.3 There he was raped again and repeatedly forced to perform oral sex on other inmates.4 At age seventeen, Rodney hung himself in his cell.5 His mother recalls that when she talked to the warden reg...

Elias A . Zerhouni Clinical Sciences US Biomedical Research : Basic , Translational

Tuberculosis: what we don't know can, and does, hurt us.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis has a penetrance of its host population that would be the envy of most human pathogens. About one-third of the human population would have a positive skin test for the infection and is thus thought to harbor the bacterium. Globally, 22 "high-burden" countries account for more than 80% of the active tuberculosis cases in the world, which shows the inequitable distribut...

Why Words Can Hurt Us Social Relationships, Stress, and Health

Many students and other readers of this volume are familiar with coming down with a nasty cold or some other flu-like virus or bacterial infection around the time of final exams and having to spend a good portion of their holidays in bed recovering. The mechanisms by which increased susceptibility to pathogens and illness follow particularly stressful social periods, activities, and disappointm...