Andy Carstens

Mar 26, 2024 | thebody.com | Andy Carstens

The endocrine system is a group of glands and organs that make hormones to help control many other systems in your body. For example, the endocrine system supports metabolism and reproduction, it can influence your sex drive, and it helps you respond to stress and injuries. “Since the beginning of the HIV epidemic, it’s been noticed that various endocrine systems have been affected,” says Todd Brown, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University.

Feb 23, 2024 | thebody.com | Andy Carstens

Protease inhibitors were among the first drugs to help successfully control HIV in people living with the virus. Today, they’re prescribed less often because they tend to have more interactions with other drugs than other HIV medicines do. Protease inhibitor drugs are still used, especially when people have strains of HIV that develop drug resistance to other medications used in antiretroviral therapy (ART).

Feb 12, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Catherine Offord |Andy Carstens |Amanda Heidt |Catherine Catherine

Members of newly certified workers’ organizations at campuses across the US speak about how they achieved official recognition and what they’re planning for the years ahead. Unionization on campus is on the rise.

Feb 12, 2024 | the-scientist.com | Andy Carstens

On an overcast October morning in 2021, self-taught ornithologist Mark A. Michaels was staking out a sweetgum tree in a Louisiana forest when he spotted a bird flying below the canopy about 50 yards away. Based on the bird’s size and long neck, Michaels first presumed he was looking at a duck. But then he noticed it intermittently tucking its wings during flight, something he says that ducks don’t do—but woodpeckers do.

Oct 31, 2023 | thebody.com | Andy Carstens

Since the 1980s, HIV has been intertwined with another epidemic—fear. In a period when scientists were still working out all the ways that HIV could be transmitted, California, Texas, and Colorado all considered measures to quarantine people who had been diagnosed with AIDS. Some even suggested that the government should require people with HIV to get tattoos, branding their bodies in a scarlet-letter-like warning to others.