Tag Archives: Failure

How do we deal with apparent cases of PrEP failure?

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? »

Viewpoints: Blame Lobbies For Failure Of U.S. Health Care; Don’t Join The Charade Supporting ‘Medicare For All’

Opinion writers focus on these health care topics and others. The Hill: US Health Care Is An Ongoing Miserable Failure The state of U.S. health care is catastrophic. In no other area is the U.S. lagging so far behind the European Union. Average U.S. life expectancy is 78.7 years to compare with 81 in the… Read More: Viewpoints: Blame Lobbies For Failure Of U.S. Health Care; Don’t… »

Things you should know about Kidney Failure

If you are suffering from kidney disorders, then you would surely know how important it is to prevent kidney failure. Kidneys diseases can be both permanent as well as temporary and are known as chronic and acute renal/kidney failure. The distinction between chronic and acute kidney failure: Acute renal failure is generally due to causes… Read More: Things you should know about Kidney Failure »