Malaria Parasites Can Control Your Scent
A new study shows the smells can both attract and repel mosquitoes at different stages of the disease. The results might help us fight back.
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Since We Last Spoke: Sober Living, Online Harassment, and the Evolution of InTrade
Updates to past Pacific Standard print stories.
‘I Look Like a Virus. My Face Is Like HIV’: A Conversation With Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Patrick Strudwick talks to Françoise Barré-Sinoussi about how she identified HIV as the cause of AIDS; her receipt of the Nobel Prize; and the latest efforts to prevent, treat, and manage HIV.
Desperate Love in a Time of Cholera
Exploring the struggle between love and disgust when caring for sick relatives. An extra to Bryn Nelson's feature-length look at the next big thing in health care.
Autism Shows Why Disease Is So Hard to Solve
What's not a cause of autism? Vaccines. What is? Genetics—but only in a partial, tangled, complicated way that we're still trying to figure out.
What Steve Jobs’ Death Teaches Us About Public Health
Studies have shown that when public figures die from disease, the public takes notice. New research suggests this could be the key to reaching those who are most at risk.
When Will a Deadly Pandemic Put an End to Worrying About Deadly Pandemics?
Fear-inducing headlines—kind of like this one—might not be such a bad thing.
Will We Ever Be Able to Figure Out Alzheimer’s?
The cause of Alzheimer’s disease has troubled the science world’s best detectives. Can such a mystery really be solved if we gather enough clues?
When It Comes to Animal Farms, Sometimes Size Doesn’t Matter
It’s frighteningly common for those who cover food issues to assume that smaller farms are safer farms. They may be happier, but they’re not necessarily healthier, as the recent spread of a devastating disease shows.
Obesity Is a Disease? Then I Give Up. Pass the Pie
New research suggests declaring obesity a disease seems to discourage healthy eating.