As the weather starts to cool down and we spend more time gathered together indoors, the risk of contracting an illness rises ...

A multiomic analysis led by the IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute has uncovered genetic and immune mechanisms in some ...

A panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to lower the recommended age for older adults to get their ...

Marine, not her real name, was considering surgery to deal with intense pain. Three doctors refused to see her before a ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Almost everyone knows about HIV. Fewer people know about its relative, HTLV-1. However, HTLV-1 can cause serious illnesses, including cancer. To develop ways to combat this virus ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced the five health departments that will receive federal funding to provide generic pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV as ...

The CDC has issued a Health Alert Network Health Advisory to alert clinicians and health departments of the outbreak, saying 36 laboratory-confirmed cases and 11 deaths have been reported in Rwanda as ...

The CDC also announced its goal to cut HIV infections in half within 5 years in the US. Testing for HIV was bolstered by an FDA approval for the first rapid HIV diagnostic test kit, which was able ...

Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town A new drug to prevent HIV infection ...

and the release of the first U.S. guidelines for the use of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) in cases of accidental HIV exposure. Since 1999, only one confirmed case of occupationally-acquired HIV has ...

In its warning, the CDC noted that the counterfeit pills frequently contained fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine ...