Tag: Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson has announced they are ready to start testing a vaccine for HIV on humans in the United States and Europe. A similar trial is ongoing in Africa with phase two starting soon. The experimental vaccine is a mosaic-based preventative immunization that targets certain strains of the virus. The company is collaborating with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the US Army on the effort. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID, told Bloomberg that 3,800 men who have sex...

Listerine has released a rainbow flag bottle for Pride Month this year. People are finding it… strange. The bottle is wrapped in the original eight-stripe rainbow flag instead of the much more common six-stripe rainbow flag. The meaning of six of the colors from when the flag was created in 1978 are written on the stripes. Hot pink, which originally stood for “sex,” is conspicuously silent on the bottle, probably because that part of being LGBTQ is still not safe to...