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With her husband near death from an antibiotic-resistant superbug, a scientist found a cure no one had used in the US — intravenous injections of viruses called phages — and convinced the medical system to save his life.
Print In the early 1980s, as AIDS was beginning its deadly tear, a Catholic priest told a radio audience in Boston that he sympathized with people who didn’t want to be around anyone who had the disease. Dr. Robert “Chip” Schooley about popped a vein. The young Harvard physician and infectious-disease expert got in touch with the station and relayed a blunt message to the priest: “If you ever make a comment like that again, I will reveal that the church is keeping priests who have AIDS out of sight at a monastery in Newton [Mass.].” “He was stoking fears people had about those wi...
Print In the early 1980s, as AIDS was beginning its deadly tear, a Catholic priest told a radio audience in Boston that he sympathized with people who didn’t want to be around anyone who had the disease. Robert “Chip” Schooley about popped a vein. The young Harvard physician and infectious disease expert got in touch with the station and relayed a blunt message to the priest: If you ever make a comment like that again, I will reveal that the church is keeping priests who have AIDS out of sight at a monastery in Newton. “He was stoking fears people had about those with HIV. It was wro...