Rural Communities Step Up to Help Their Hospitals

Rural Communities Step Up to Help Their Hospitals

by Diane Eastabrook. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. In the DC Comics town of Metropolis, the townsfolk had Superman to protect them from villains like Lex Luthor, Brainiac and Darkseid. But in real-life Metropolis, Ill. (pop. 6,133), there is no...
HIV/AIDS’ Effect on Aging: Still Unclear

HIV/AIDS’ Effect on Aging: Still Unclear

by John-Manuel Andriote. This article originally appeared on Next Avenue. Craig Washington has never spent a night in the hospital because of HIV. Not even the time in the early ’90s when he got cryptosporidiosis, one of the opportunistic infections that can wreak...