If greenhouse gases continue to rise at current rates, at least 50 per cent of the global population will be exposed to two particularly dangerous disease-spreading mosquitoes — Aedes aegypti
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A second person may have been cured of HIV, ten years after the first patient, Timothy Ray Brown, known as the “Berlin patient”, received a similar stem cell transplant and
Last Wednesday 20 February, a committee advising the Congolese Ministry of Health made the decision to provide the Ebola vaccine to pregnant and breastfeeding women, as well as babies under
A new study published on 13 February in Nature has demonstrated that persistent disruption to sleep increases white blood cell production causing damage to blood vessels (1). The researchers showed
A new study published on 13 February in Nature suggests human cells could be reprogrammed to replace the insulin-producing cells destroyed by diabetes, offering a potential new treatment for the
A new study has refuted the old folk wisdom “Beer before wine and you’ll feel fine; wine before beer and you’ll feel queer.” Results of the randomised controlled trial published
Researchers may have discovered a drug that can reduce the ‘thirst’ of ravenous mosquitoes for several days. Findings of the new study were published on 7 February in the journal
A large study of two European populations ― Belgian and Dutch people ― has discovered that several species of gut bacteria are missing in people with depression (1). The results
According to a new study published on 4 February in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the “metabolic age” of female brains are a few years younger than
A new commentary published on 4 February in The Lancet has called upon World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to reconvene the emergency committee and to reconsider whether to declare