PSMA PET has fundamentally changed how prostate cancer is seen, staged, and treated, but as with any powerful tool, it demands interpretation with a clear eye and a humble mind. In a recent conversation among clinicians, Dr. Ghesani walked through the normal biodistribution of PSMA-targeted tracers, the patterns that can look alarming but are simply the body doing its ordinary work. These tracers are taken up not only by prostate cancer cells but by healthy tissues that naturally express PSMA, including the salivary glands, liver, spleen, and kidneys. From there, the tracer is cleared through the urinary tract and the…

When COVID-19 swept across Uganda in 2020, the country’s clinics did not just battle a virus. They battled rumors. Pregnant women who should have been walking through the gates of their local health center for antenatal care suddenly stopped coming. Women living with HIV, people whose survival depends on taking antiretroviral therapy every single day, quietly interrupted their medications, afraid of something that had never been confirmed by a doctor. The source of that fear was not always the virus itself; it was what they had read on their phones or heard on the radio. A new qualitative study published…