Researchers are taking middle-age memory lapses more seriously. The good news is that they have found that memory often bounces back in post-menopausal women. Karen J. Carlson, HMS associate professor of medicine; Hadine Joffe, HMS associate professor of psychiatry; and Anne Louise Oaklander, HMS associate professor of neurology, all at Massachusetts General Hospital, are quoted.

Cuba now has one of the world’s smallest AIDS epidemics, a mere 14,038 cases. Its infection rate is 0.1 percent, on par with Finland, Singapore and Kazakhstan. That is one-sixth the rate of the United States, one-twentieth of nearby Haiti. Arachu Castro, HMS associate professor of global health and social medicine, is quoted.

A parent’s depression can be linked to all kinds of problems, even in the lives of older children, according to experts. William Beardslee, the George P. Gardner and Olga E. Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston, is quoted.