VIDEO: Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli: 5,000 Percent Price Boost ‘Not Excessive at All’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 23, 2015 In case you hadn't heard, last month, Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO and former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli got hold of the rights to parasite-zapping drug Daraprim, and then he had the bright idea to raise the price from $13.50 to $750 per pill. Now he has a big public relations problem and a self-created health care crisis on his hands. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

VIDEO: Robert Scheer on American Power and Arrogance: ‘It’s a Toxic Cocktail’ (Part 10 of 10)

Staff / Truthdig Jul 14, 2015 In the final installment of The Real News Network’s series of interviews on “Reality Asserts Itself,” Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer explains how an infatuation with American culture and an ignorance of American history have led to unbelievable levels of brutality and destruction. Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )

In Yet Another Medical Breakthrough, Cuba Takes a Huge Step Toward Eradicating AIDS

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Jul 14, 2015 After we learned that the island nation has had a cancer-suppressing vaccine for several years, it seemed impossible the country could have achieved another medical milestone -- until the World Health Organization announced that Cuba had become the "first country to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to baby." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

What Do Llamas Have to Do With AIDS?

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2014 The furry South American creatures may hold the cure to AIDS; Flickr gave up on its plan to sell prints of Creative Commons photos after much criticism; meanwhile, Dick Cheney admits he has no problem with innocent people being tortured. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

China Partners With Gay Hookup App to Spread AIDS Awareness

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Dec 9, 2014 China decriminalized gay sex only in 1997, and stigmas remain, but a doubling of HIV infections among young urbanites has made for some unlikely bedfellows. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

CDC Director Compares Ebola Epidemic to AIDS

Kasia Anderson / Truthdig Oct 9, 2014 On Thursday, a day after the Ebola virus claimed the first person diagnosed with the disease in the U.S., the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention invoked another recent and ongoing health crisis while fundraising in Washington, D.C. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hopes for HIV Treatment Dashed After Virus Reappears in ‘Cured Girl’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 11, 2014 HIV scientists believed they were on the path toward a cure for AIDS when an infected newborn showed no signs of the virus after a new treatment. Years later, the illness has been detected again. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Living Hell Beneath Romania’s Capital

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig May 25, 2014 In a video companion to a written report filed last week, Britain's Channel 4 News takes viewers beneath the streets of post-Communist Bucharest to a world inhabited by hundreds of men, women and children stricken by drug abuse, HIV and tuberculosis. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Stand Up Planet’: Hasan Minhaj Follows the Funny Around the Globe

Emily Wilson / Truthdig May 14, 2014 Hasan Minhaj wants everyone to see “Stand Up Planet.” But that’s not because he’s the host -- Minhaj believes the documentary shows how comedy can change the world a joke at a time. Hasan Minhaj wants everyone to see “Stand Up Planet.” But that’s not because he’s the host—Minhaj believes the documentary shows how comedy can change the world a joke at a time. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Medea Benjamin on Her Egyptian Detention

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The Code Pink co-founder tells us why Egypt thinks she's a threat to national security. Also: Making sense of Ukraine, Uganda bans homosexuality, and the Advocate's Matthew Breen on AIDS breakthroughs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Dawn of AIDS Ages Ago

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 7, 2014 Researchers hypothesize the first human infected with HIV was a Bantu hunter who came into blood-to-blood contact with a chimpanzee with a similar virus in a jungle in Cameroon more than a century ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Back in the Day, Minimum Wage Could Feed a Family

Staff / Truthdig Dec 6, 2013 Current minimum wage earners can't make it above the poverty line, but this wasn't the case before the ’80s; a radioactive bomb can be used to clear out the AIDS virus in the body; meanwhile, a new study finds a correlation between intelligence and drinking. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )