HEALTH COMMENTARY: "Exploring Human Potential"

Category: epidemic disease

Outwitting HIV

Post author By Mike Magee
Post date May 21, 2026

Mike Magee In a 1996 JAMA editorial Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg MD wrote “Our fight with microbes is far from over …odds are tipped in their favor…they outnumber us a billion fold, and mutate a billion times more quickly…pitted against microbial genes, we humans mainly have our wits.” Now three decades later, our scientists remain in […]

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If You Survived The Plague, Are You Destined For An Auto-Immune Disease?

Post author By Mike Magee
Post date October 22, 2022

Mike Magee This Fall, I am teaching a 4-week course on “How Epidemics Have Shaped Our World” at the President’s College at the University of Hartford. It is, of course a timely topic, but also personally unnerving as we complete a third year under the shadow of Covid-19. Where does one begin on a topic […]