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Long-Lasting Anti-AIDS Meds Eliminate 'Psychic Toll' Of Daily Pill

The drugs only need to be taken a few times a year — and may soon be available in many parts of the world. Patients say they are more convenient and less stigmatizing.

November 19, 2020
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
Pretty Mkhabela, a HIV-positive sex worker in South Africa, gets antiretroviral drugs delivered to her house as part of a campaign to maintain treatment for HIV-positive patients during the pandemic. A new drug called cabotegravir could give women more options to protect themselves from HIV infection.

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  • Global Health

Protecting Women Against HIV Just Got 9 Times Easier

A single injection of a drug called cabotegravir given every two months has been shown to be more effective than a daily oral dose of Truvada.

November 11, 2020
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By:
  • Jason Beaubien
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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQs: Open Windows In Winter, Holding Your Breath, Sprayed Masks?

This week our readers have lots of ... interesting ... queries involving opening windows during winter in North Dakota, trying not to breathe during a micro-encounter and spraying a mask with ... oil?

October 16, 2020
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By:
  • Pranav Baskar
An illegal roadside graveyard in northeastern Namibia. People in the townships surrounding Rundu, a town on the border to Angola, are too poor to afford a funeral plot at the municipal graveyard — and resorted to burying their dead next to a dusty gravel road just outside of the town.

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  • Global Health

Why The Pandemic Could Change The Way We Record Deaths

Before COVID-19 came along, the world wasn't so great at counting deaths and understanding why people die. But the virus has propelled countries to ramp up their efforts.

September 25, 2020
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  • Pranav Baskar

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  • Health

A COVID-19 Vaccine May Be Only 50% Effective. Is That Good Enough?

Scientists are racing to develop a vaccine that proves "safe and effective." It may not prevent infection in everyone who gets it, but it still could eventually stop the pandemic. Here's how.

September 14, 2020
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By:
  • Allison Aubrey
Left: Xi Lu had traveled to Wuhan in January to spend the Lunar New Year with his parents, having not been with his them for the holiday in over seven years. Lin Yang, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong Polytechnic University also traveled to Wuhan to visit her parents for the Lunar New Year. Each person found themselves stuck there with the enforcement of lockdown in the city.

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  • Asia

Whatever Happened To ... 2 Of The Visitors Who Got Stuck In Wuhan During The Pandemic

An epidemiologist and a grad school graduate who'd gone to see family reflect on how tough it was to be cut off — and what they learned from their months-long quarantine.

September 04, 2020
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By:
  • Pien Huang
This negative-stained transmission electron micrograph depicts the ultrastructural details of an influenza virus particle, or virion.

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  • Health

Flu Season Looms And Scientists Wonder How Flu And COVID-19 Might Mix

There's a lot that scientists don't know about how viral infections can interact. But researchers are eager to figure out how coronavirus infections might affect flu infections and vice versa.

September 03, 2020
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Air conditioners on a building. Scientists say there has been too little research into the role of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in the spread of the coronavirus.

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  • Global Health

Can Air Conditioners Spread COVID-19?

People are worried that the virus could be spread by air conditioning systems. Here's what researchers do — and don't yet — know.

August 18, 2020
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By:
  • Jessica Craig
A fan wears a neck gaiter as he watches the Los Angeles Dodgers play at home against the San Francisco Giants last week.

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  • Global Health

How Should I Cover My Face? A Deeper Look Into Neck Gaiters And Face Shields

Experts look into a new study that claims wearing a neck gaiter may be worse than no mask at all. And they discuss other face coverings such as goggles and plastic face shields.

August 14, 2020
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  • Pranav Baskar
People wearing masks, walk in a subway station, in Hong Kong, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Hong Kong on Friday confirmed 25 cases of a new virus that originated in the Chinese province of Hubei. According to the latest figures, 233 new cases of the novel coronav

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  • Health

The Other Viral Threat: Misinformation About Coronavirus Spreads On Social Media

The spread of a deadly new coronavirus is being closely followed by global health officials and the public, with over 31,000 confirmed cases worldwide ,...

February 07, 2020
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Pria Mahadevan

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