Infectious disease researchers at The University of Texas at Austin studying the novel coronavirus were able to identify how quickly the virus can spread, a factor that may help public health officials in their efforts at containment. They found that time between cases in a chain of transmission is less than a week and that… Read More »
Lack of safer drug consumption facility impeding efforts to control HIV outbreak among Glasgow drug users People who inject drugs in public places in Scotland are much more likely to have HIV or hepatitis C and are at higher risk of overdose and skin and soft tissue infections caused by injecting, a survey of drug… Read More »
A study investigating the interactions in HIV-positive trans women between gender-affirming feminising hormone therapy (FHT) and antiretroviral therapy (ART) has found that blood levels of the primary female hormone estradiol were reduced by an average of 36% in women once they started taking ART. It also found that taking FHT reduced the level of the… Read More »
If you’re happy and you know it you obviously aren’t 47. A new study pegs 47.2 as the age when people in the developed world have the least amount of happiness, and 48.2 in developing nations. “Unhappiness is hill-shaped in age,” David Blanchflower, a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and former Bank of England… Read More »
Walking slowly is a sign of aging fast: A plodding pace at age 45 may be a warning sign for dementia, and early death, study suggests Doctors have long known that elderly people who walk slowly are at higher risk of an early death But new Duke University research found that people who walk at… Read More »