AIDS
Who knew that counting beads could help change the world? Mary Fisher had a notion it would.
Notable events from our shared experience
Imagine that you're called for jury duty. Maybe you're excited - you've always wanted to see the justice system from inside. Maybe you're bummed out - you've already been through this routine more times than you can remember.
Whenever Vivian Davis feels like doing something, she does it. So when she felt like joining the Peace Corps, she did - at age 78.
"Most people think I'm a hard-drinking slut, but really I'm an angel of mercy."
How do you process regret at midlife? Two new novels tackle that question in interesting ways.
It wasn't that long ago - 1987, to be precise - that U.S. Surgeon General Everett Koop predicted the HIV/AIDS epidemic would kill 100 million people by the year 2000. That didn't happen. Instead, about 34 million people are living with HIV, according to AVERT, an international health organization,…
In 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was started to memorialize Americans who died of AIDS. Portions of the quilt's now 48,000 panels--hand sewn by family and friends of those lost to the disease-will be displayed throughout Washington, D.C. during the month of July.
In 1986, when I was writing on the sitcom "Designing Women," the brilliant creator of the show, Linda Bloodworth Thomason, and I found out on the same week that both of our mothers had a fatal disease. Linda's mother had acquired AIDS from a transfusion; my mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.…
Seniors face Medicare cost barrier for cancer. If rising health care costs weren't enough, Medicare patients like Rita Moore, below, who are fighting cancer are facing a new hurdle: high copays for the newest treatments.