Volunteers walk on the 21,000 panel Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Washington in 1992. (Ap Photo/Shayna Brenna)AP The 16-year-old boy had the kind of illness that wouldn’t be familiar to doctors for years: He was weak and emaciated, rife with stubborn infections and riddled with rare cancerous lesions known as Kaposi’s sarcoma, a skin disease found in elderly men of Mediterranean descent. The boy, Robert Rayford, died on May 15, 1969, in St. Louis. It would be more than a decade before doctors started seeing similar cases among gay men in New York and California. In 1982, with the num...
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There's a reason the Mediterranean diet is recommended by nutritionists and the German diet is… not. Starchy, sugary, meat-stuffed, the foods of the German ...
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