Thai Doctors Use Anti-HIV and Anti-flu Drugs to Treat Patients with Coronavirus Infection
Thai doctors are using a combination of anti-flu and anti-HIV drugs to treat patients infected with coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Cancer is the Leading Cause of Death in High-Income Countries
Cancer kills twice as much as cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and is now the leading cause of death in high-income countries, according to a report...
Continued Contact with Semen Shields Women Against HIV Acquisition
Continued exposure to semen decreases the risk of HIV infection in women, says a study published yesterday in Nature Communications. Investigators from the Wistar...
The History of Finland Untangles Links Between Genetic Variants and Disease
A comprehensive study of the genetic history of Finnish people has helped investigators to identify 26 potentially harmful DNA variations, of which 19 are...
Preeclampsia Increases Risk of Developing Kidney Disorders Later in Life
Women who had preeclampsia in at least one pregnancy are at higher risk of developing end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). For these women, the likelihood...
Putting a Price on Life: Why and How
Public and private spending on health care has risen steadily worldwide over the past decades1. Take, for instance, the country where I live. In...
The Rebirth of Placenta Rituals
A few days after giving birth at her home in southeast Australia, Emily Burns sat in her yard and watched as her husband and...
Some Reasons Why You Sneeze For No Apparent Reason
Have you ever experienced any of these three intriguing sneeze -inducing phenomena?
Free of HIV: UK Patient is the Second-Ever in Remission
A decade after the ‘Berlin patient’, a second person appears to be free of HIV. A male patient in the UK has been in...
Polio Eradication: Almost There?
On October 24, the World Polio Day celebrates the birth of Jonas Salk. In 1952, a team led by Salk at the University of Pittsburgh developed the first effective vaccine against poliomyelitis.