Episode 93: Dr. Claus Koehnlein Helps You Decide Whether to Get a Flu Shot this Year

December 18th, 2014

To flu shot or not to flu shot? Dr. Claus Koehnlein of Kiel, Germany, treats many “HIV positives,” widely considered to have an immune deficiency and therefore to be prime candidates for vaccines of this type. But did you know that a recent flu vaccination is among many factors that could cause a false “HIV positive” test result in the first place? What about that 1918 influenza pandemic we don’t want to repeat? What is the flu, anyway, and isn’t it sometimes fatal? Continue reading »

Episode 59: Mark Gabrish Conlan on Dangerous Virus or ‘Living With HIV’?

February 17th, 2013

Is “HIV” a dangerous infection you shouldn’t get “complacent” about, or a matter of simply “living with HIV”?  How does the medical paradigm reinforce the meanings and stories we give “HIV” — or anything else we call a disease?  HEAL-San Diego founder and Zenger’s Newsmagazine publisher Mark Gabrish Conlan takes on the paradoxes of “AIDS” propaganda, giving his unique perspective as a queer community activist since the early 1980s.

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