BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday, boosted by more than 200 people testing positive for the disease in two prisons outside of Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak. A child wearing a face mask runs past stores of Tiffany & Co and Miu Miu, as the… Read More: Coronavirus on G20 agenda as China reports uptick in cases »
The 17th European AIDS Conference (EACS 2019) in Basel, Switzerland, last week, heard about another case of a PrEP user who caught HIV despite being apparently adherent to PrEP. These cases are likely to keep on happening, Dr Hans Benjamin Hampel of Zürich University Hospital told the conference, and we perhaps need to move beyond trying to… Read More: How do we deal with apparent cases of PrEP failure? »
FRIDAY, Aug. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) — The number of people who’ve developed a severe form of lung disease potentially tied to vaping has now risen to 215 cases across 25 states, and federal health officials are recommending that Americans not use e-cigarettes. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a health… Read More: CDC Says ‘Don’t Vape’ As Lung Injury Cases Rise »
Obesity now causes more cases of four common cancers in the UK than smoking, according to a charity. Cancer Research UK says bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver cancers are more likely to have been caused by being overweight than by smoking tobacco. It says millions are at risk of cancer because of their weight and… Read More: Obesity ’causes more cases of some cancers than smoking’ »