November 11th, 2020Research shows that electronic cigarettes can help smokers to quit smoking cigarettes, according to an editorial in JAMA by Dr Nancy Rigotti, director of the Tobacco...
October 14th, 2020President Dwight Eisenhower’s 1955 admission to hospital heart attack was as dramatic for Americans as that of President Donald Trump for COVID-19, write Harvard's Dr...
September 30th, 2020A US construction worker's love of black liquorice cost him his life after eating a bag and a half every day for a few weeks caused caused dangerously low potassium and...
With many HIV treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa still expecting new patients to attend a clinic monthly for their first six months of antiretroviral therapy...Coronavirus
A Boston hotel that was linked to a coronavirus outbreak after it hosted a local biotech company's conference earlier this year likely led to about 20,000 cases. The...Oncology
Taking vitamin D supplements might reduce the risk of colitis in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors to treat their cancer, found a US study.
Immune...Coronavirus
The Infectious Diseases Society of America updated the treatment portion of its COVID-19 management guidelines, making more specific recommendations for medications....Coronavirus
Adults with asthma who became infected with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 were at higher risk of developing severe illness compared with adults who did not have...
June 10th, 2020Researchers Dr Richard Schwartzstein, and co-authors has examined ventilation and medication strategies that can help avoid psychological trauma for severe COVID-19...
May 13th, 2020
People with HIV-1 infection (PWHIV) who have virologic failure can safely omit nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) in new regimens that include more...