In rural India, fear of testing and vaccines hampers COVID-19 fight
When health worker Neelam Kumari knocks on doors in Indian villages the occupants sometimes run out the back, terrified that she wants to vaccinate them against...
Category: Health
Four decades of AIDS
Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS.
Screening reveals coeliac disease cases in children have doubled in 25 years
Mass screening of school age children has led to significantly higher numbers of coeliac disease cases being diagnosed, according to a new study presented today at...
Mothers transmitting hepatitis B to children as broken hospital procedures plague Europe
Procedures to prevent the direct transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) from mother to child, particularly during and after pregnancy, have significant fragmentation and gaps, a...
President says Argentina to produce Russian COVID vaccine
Argentina President Alberto Fernandez on Friday announced the South American country would begin producing the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine following a virtual meeting with his...
FDA approves obesity drug that helped people cut weight 15%
Regulators on Friday said a new version of a popular diabetes medicine could be sold as a weight-loss drug in the U.S.
Computer simulations of the brain can predict language recovery in stroke survivors
At Boston University, a team of researchers is working to better understand how language and speech is processed in the brain, and how to best rehabilitate...
Newly approved targeted therapy sotorasib prolongs survival in KRAS G12C-mutated lung cancer
Results from the Phase II cohort of the CodeBreaK 100 study showed that treatment with the KRAS G12C inhibitor sotorasib achieved a 37.1% objective response rate...
Lower mortality rate for men at high risk for death from prostate cancer who received postoperative radiation therapy
In a large, international retrospective study, men at high risk for death from prostate cancer had a significant reduction in all-cause mortality if treated with radiation...
Newly approved drug effective against lung cancer caused by genetic mutation
The new drug sotorasib reduces tumor size and shows promise in improving survival among patients with lung tumors caused by a specific DNA mutation, according to...
