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Global mortality trends reveal convergence clubs and diverging patterns

Study analyzes global mortality trends from 1990 to 2030, identifying five convergence clubs of countries with similar mortality characteristics, revealing patterns of convergence and divergence in mortality and longevity.

18 Jan 2024

Anti-HIV drugs can be used to prevent inflammatory complications of bacterial sepsis

Bacterial infections can lead to the formation of abscesses -; pockets of dead cells and debris surrounded by inflammatory immune cells. Bacteria multiply within abscesses, causing more inflammation and further damage to surrounding tissues.

17 Jan 2024

Monkey study points to HIV vulnerability for vaccine attack

Three different HIV antibodies each independently protected monkeys from acquiring simian-HIV (SHIV) in a placebo-controlled proof-of-concept study intended to inform development of a preventive HIV vaccine for people.

17 Jan 2024

Amsterdam UMC project aims for first effective HIV vaccine with Gates funding

Worldwide, an estimated, 40 million people live with HIV. Two-thirds of this group on the African continent.

16 Jan 2024

Study finds that HIV populations in people with higher viral loads also have higher rates of viral recombination

Researchers investigated whether denser intrahost HIV populations had a higher incidence of coinfection and recombination.

15 Jan 2024

Paxlovid treatment in 20% of COVID-19 patients could avert 850,000 hospitalizations, save up to $170 billion

A study in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal shows treating 20% of COVID-19 patients with Paxlovid could save up to 0.85 million lives and reduce the economic burden by US $170.17 billion in the US.

14 Jan 2024

Leveraging nutritional interventions for effective TB control

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious killer worldwide, with 10.6 million cases and 1.6 million deaths in 2021 alone.

13 Jan 2024

New study offers hope for reducing malaria in pregnant women living with HIV

In women living with HIV, preventive treatment with DHA-PPQ is a safe and effective strategy to prevent malaria during pregnancy, according to the final results of MAMAH, a clinical trial funded by the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) and coordinated by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by "la Caixa" Foundation.

12 Jan 2024

Trump official who OK’d drugs from Canada chairs company behind Florida’s import plan

The Food and Drug Administration's unprecedented approval of Florida's plan to import drugs from Canada was made possible only after Alex Azar, as the Trump administration's Health and Human Services secretary, certified that bringing medicines over the border could be done safely.

12 Jan 2024

Extended liver preservation technique shows promise for daytime transplants

Phase II clinical trial evaluates the safety and feasibility of prolonged DHOPE for extending human donor liver preservation to 20 hours, showing potential for facilitating daytime liver transplantation.

11 Jan 2024

Do e-health interventions for smoking cessation management work?

Efficacy of e-health interventions for smoking cessation management in smokers.

9 Jan 2024

Rising out-of-pocket costs for PrEP threaten key strategy in ending the HIV epidemic

Increasing patients' out of pocket costs for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), medications, which have been shown to dramatically reduce the risk of HIV infection, could lead to a significant reduction in PrEP use and a rise in HIV infection rates, according to a new study co-led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

8 Jan 2024

Stapled lipopeptides show promise as broad-spectrum antiviral agents

Compounds that obstruct the "landing gear" of a range of harmful viruses can successfully protect against infection by the virus that causes COVID-19, a study published today and led by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists shows.

5 Jan 2024

Scripps Research commemorates 100 years of innovation in science and medicine

Scripps Research, a nonprofit biomedical institute ranked one of the most influential in the world for its impact on innovation, will celebrate its 100-year history throughout 2024.

5 Jan 2024

40-year timeline of HIV: Testing assays, global burden, prevalence, treatment, and challenges

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. More than 77 million individuals have been infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and approximately 37.6 million people are living with HIV infection.

4 Jan 2024

Scientists unearth dual-action weapons against deadly tuberculosis

A research team has detected various substances that have a dual effect against tuberculosis: They make the bacteria causing the disease less pathogenic for human immune cells and boost the activity of conventional antibiotics / publication in ‘Cell Chemical Biology’.

4 Jan 2024