Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV is an antiretroviral pill that is over 90% effective in preventing HIV acquisition when taken as prescribed. A new perspective...
February 13th, 2019Men who have smoked marijuana at some point in their life had significantly higher concentrations of sperm when compared with men who have never smoked marijuana,...
The European Commission is ‘reluctant’ to sit with the tobacco industry at the same table to discuss novel tobacco products such as e-cigarettes, a high-ranking EU...Addiction News
Civil society organisations working on tobacco control in Nigeria have called for firm enforcement of the National Tobacco Act, which prohibits the sale of tobacco to...International
The Royal College of Paediatrics has been accused of breaching World Health Organisation guidance after it accepted sponsorship funding from baby formula companies. The...HIV/AIDS
Screening all hospitalised patients with HIV for tuberculosis (TB) using urine tests would improve life expectancy and be cost-effective in Malawi and South Africa,...HIV/AIDS
An international team of researchers has carried out a review of the evidence examining what influences people who are HIV positive to go to health services and then...
January 23rd, 2019The World Health Organisation has ranked vaccine hesitancy – growing resistance to widely available lifesaving vaccines – as one of the top 10 health threats in the...
Estimates of how often people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) do not remain virally undetectable are important both in order to gauge the potency of ART, and to answer...
January 16th, 2019A systematic review of studies over almost 40 years, commissioned to inform new World Health Organisation guidelines, found that higher levels of fibre and whole grain...
