Health|7 Heroin Users Die From Flesh-Eating Bacteria in San DiegoCounty health officials are asking the medical community to be on the lookout for additional cases of myonecrosis, a bacterial infection associated with black-tar heroin use.People who use black-tar heroin are more prone to developing myonecrosis, an infection that destroys muscle tissue, according to a San…

Every month, Tim Menza receives reports about new HIV diagnoses and compares them to previous years. As a doctor and data analyst for the Oregon Health Authority’s sexually transmitted disease and HIV program, he’s familiar with how the HIV epidemic has waxed and waned.Oregon is four years into a five-year, federally sponsored program to end…