When transitioning from prison to the community, formerly incarcerated individuals face numerous challenges, including lack of employment, housing, and health care. This transition is more precarious for those with HIV or ...
Feb 19, 2025
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Some governments are lacking effective policies to tackle the global fungal crisis responsible for the deaths of around 3.5 million people per year, according to an international team of experts.
Feb 19, 2025
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Neighborhood pharmacies are rapidly shuttering. Not long ago, Walgreens, one of the nation's biggest pharmacy chains, announced plans to close 1,200 stores over the next three years. That's part of a larger trend that has ...
Feb 18, 2025
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How can we best treat infectious diseases in people with obesity? Hospital pharmacist and Ph.D. researcher Koen van Rhee studied how obesity affects blood levels of two commonly used medicines. He also developed a method ...
Feb 17, 2025
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A special liquid diet, known as exclusive enteral nutrition, is an essential therapy for Crohn's disease. Patients consume only this formula for six to eight weeks, completely avoiding solid foods. However, the exact reasons ...
Feb 11, 2025
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When a person suffers from two or more long-term health conditions at the same time this is known as multimorbidity.
Feb 11, 2025
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Influenza A virus particles strategically adapt their shape—to become either spheres or larger filaments—to favor their ability to infect cells depending on environmental conditions, according to a new study from National ...
Feb 10, 2025
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Breastfeeding is so important for child health that the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef recommend that babies should be breastfed within an hour of birth, be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life, ...
Feb 9, 2025
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A new study has demonstrated that a combination of conditional cash transfers and TB counseling significantly improves treatment success rates and reduces loss to follow-up among TB patients in South Africa.
Feb 7, 2025
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When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that might lead to human-to-human spread, that "train has already left the station," warns one infectious disease expert.
Feb 6, 2025
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