FRIDAY, Jan. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A three-month sexual abstinence rule for blood donations from sexually active gay and bisexual men should be dropped by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, critics urge as the country struggles with a blood shortage. Right now, based on the slight chance ofContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Want to look more alluring? Wear a mask. Really. That’s the takeaway from Welsh researchers who found that masking up may make men look more attractive to the opposite sex and that some kinds of masks do a better job of this thanContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 – (HealthDay News) — Men who are broken-hearted or just unlucky in love could be more likely to have health-damaging inflammation, new research suggests. Serious breakups and solo living for many years may increase the risk of ill health and death — but apparently only forContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — An international trial found that a once-a-day antiretroviral medication for kids with HIV is not only cheap and easy to take, but also better at suppressing HIV than standard treatments. “Our findings provide strong evidence for the global rollout of dolutegravir for childrenContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The first injection drug to prevent HIV infection was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday. “Today’s approval adds an important tool in the effort to end the HIV epidemic by providing the first option to prevent HIV that doesContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — You might have heard a lot about the human papillomavirus (HPV) and its role in cervical cancer, but this sexually transmitted virus can also cause another type of cancer. Rates of oropharyngeal cancer, which occurs in the middle part of the throat, areContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) — People with HIV have an added risk of heart failure, so they and their health care providers need to be alert for early signs such as shortness of breath, fatigue, leg swelling, coughing and chest pain, according to a new study. “Cardiovascular diseaseContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Cutting-edge mRNA technology brought safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines to a world in crisis — could it do the same for a much older foe, HIV? An experimental HIV vaccine that uses the same mRNA platform technology as the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccinesContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — What do all the microbes living rent-free in your gut have to do with disease risk? Perhaps a lot. A groundbreaking analysis of decades-old stool and blood samples from the early AIDS epidemic suggests that men who had high levels of inflammation-causing bacteriaContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Racism is “a public health threat” that must be tackled to end the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, the Biden administration said Wednesday in announcing its new strategy to fight the disease. Over generations, “structural inequities have resulted in racial and ethnic health disparities thatContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — With HIV a continuing threat to women’s health, the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the first long-acting device to protect women from sexually transmitted HIV. The device is a vaginal ring made of silicone elastomer, a flexible rubber-like material that makes itContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Some progress has been made in the U.S. fight against HIV, with new infections falling among white gay and bisexual men over the past decade. But their Black and Hispanic counterparts did not see that advance, health officials say. The continuing inequities showContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Women getting vaccinated against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) now need two or three shots, but an African clinical trial suggests a single dose is just as effective. The finding could speed up the immunization process in developing countries with high levels ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The latest in a spate of studies investigating links between use of social media and depression suggests the two go hand in hand. “The relationship between social media and mental health has been the subject of a lot of debate,” said Dr. RoyContinue Reading