HIV & AIDS

HIV epidemic: Successful use of self-tests in rural Africa

Despite significant progress in prevention and therapy, millions of people still get infected with HIV every year. The main burden of HIV/AIDS falls on Africa. To contain the epidemic, innovative methods are needed to enable ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Expert explains ageism's toll in the age of COVID

Margaret Morganroth Gullette is one of the nation's leading voices on the negative impacts and violence of ageism. Gullette, 81 and a resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center of Brandeis University, is the ...

Neuroscience

New research shows wildfire smoke impacts on the brain

Smoke from the massive wildfires still burning in northern Canada has cast a pall over much of North America this summer, leading to health concerns for older people and those with chronic respiratory conditions.

Oncology & Cancer

People who live in countryside are less likely to survive cancer

It is easy to romanticise about escaping to the country, with its clean air, green space, and idyllic views. But our latest research, a review of 39 studies from around the world, suggests the need for a bit of an adjustment: ...

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