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No HIV Infections After Twice-a-Year PrEP

Medscape Medical News Brian Owens July 05, 2024 Lenacapavir, a twice-yearly injectable HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, has shown 100% efficacy in preventing HIV in women at a high risk for infection, according to an interim analysis of the phase 3 PURPOSE 1 trial. The results were so promising that the independent data monitoring committee recommended that...

A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe. Here’s how to stop it
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A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe. Here’s how to stop it

Time spent outdoors is the best defence against rising rates of short-sightedness, but scientists are searching for other ways to reverse the troubling trend.By Elie Dolgin A physician examines the eyesight of a child with myopia in Hebei province, northern China. Credit: Sipa US/Alamy The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just reshape how children learn and see...

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New weight-loss hope for those with highest obesity risk: Underserved, low-income patients

Patients in primary care clinic program lost 5 percent of body weight PENNINGTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Low-income Louisiana patients enrolled in a tailored obesity intervention program lost much more weight than counterparts receiving usual care. Study results were published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine. This population, who...

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Low humidity increases COVID risk; another reason to wear a mask

Dry air could prompt further disease spread A study focused on the Greater Sydney area during the early epidemic stage of COVID-19 found an association between lower humidity and an increase in community transmission. Now a second study by the same team confirms the risk. The study is published today in Transboundary and Emerging Diseases....

Patients taking long-term opioids produce antibodies against the drugs
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Patients taking long-term opioids produce antibodies against the drugs

by Eric Hamilton, University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists have discovered that a majority of back-pain patients they tested who were taking opioid painkillers produced anti-opioid antibodies. These antibodies may contribute to some of the negative side effects of long-term opioid use. Existing antibodies may also limit the benefit a patient receives from an...

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New, more infectious strain of COVID-19 now dominates global cases of virus

Researchers have shown that a variation in the viral genome of Covid-19 improved its ability to infect human cells and helped it become the dominant strain circulating around the world today. The study, published today in the journal Cell, shows the variation is more infectious in cell cultures under laboratory conditions. The variant, named ‘D614G’,...

Antibody neutralizes SARS and COVID-19 coronaviruses
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Antibody neutralizes SARS and COVID-19 coronaviruses

The neutralizing antibody, called S309, is on an accelerated path toward clinical trials. An antibody first identified in a blood sample from a patient who recovered from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003 inhibits related coronaviruses, including the cause of COVID-19. The antibody, called S309, is now on a fast-track development and testing path at...

How the Lyme disease epidemic is spreading and why ticks are so hard to stop
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How the Lyme disease epidemic is spreading and why ticks are so hard to stop

by Durland Fish, The Conversation In the 1970s, an epidemic of mysterious arthritis-like symptoms began spreading among children in the lushly wooded area around Lyme, Connecticut. Scientists traced the cause to tick bites and named it Lyme disease, but why it had suddenly appeared there was a mystery. Similar symptoms had been documented on Long...

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