Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) – taking antiretroviral drugs to protect people from acquiring HIV infection – is revolutionising the prevention of HIV around the...
October 23rd, 2019
A low cost and widely available drug could reduce deaths in traumatic brain injury patients by as much as 20%, depending on the severity of injury, according to a large...
The UN has set a goal of ending the global HIV/Aids epidemic by 2030. The tide is slowly turning in south-eastern Africa – which encompasses countries like South...Budget 2019
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s latest budget reveals that per capita spending on public health will decline for the second year in a row – and health infrastructure...Public Health
In public health settings, limiting examination for scabies to the exposed components of both limbs had high sensitivity compared to full body examination, found a...
November 7th, 2018Body Mass Index (BMI), a measure of body fat, is linked to risk of death from every major cause except transport accidents, according to an analysis of 3.6m people in...
October 31st, 2018Being overweight or underweight, as measured by the Body Mass Index, could knock four years off life expectancy, a five-year UK population cohort study of nearly 2m...
August 22nd, 2018
A huge surge in measles across Europe has been reported by the World Health Organisation, which says low MMR vaccination rates are to blame. More than 41,000 cases...
A simple $20 blood test could help diagnose thousands of patients with hepatitis B in need of treatment in some of Africa’s poorest regions. Researchers have developed...Infectious Diseases
Children infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium were found to produce distinctive skin smells making them more attractive to malaria mosquitoes than uninfected...
