Dr. Paul Polak, a former psychiatrist who became an entrepreneur and an inventor with a focus on helping the world’s poorest people create profitable small businesses, died Oct. 10 in Denver. He was 86.
In what could eventually become a milestone for HIV prevention, very preliminary tests of an implant containing a new drug suggest that it may protect against infection for a full year.
In what could eventually become a milestone for HIV prevention, very preliminary tests of an implant containing a new drug suggest that it may protect against infection for a full year.
(Global Health): There have now been 880 measles cases reported in this year’s outbreak, already the largest since 1994, federal health officials said on Monday.
(Global Health): Gilead Sciences, maker of Truvada, the only drug approved to prevent infection with HIV, will donate enough of the drug to supply 200,000 patients annually for up to 11 years, federal health officials announced Thursday.
Because of this year’s sharp increase in measles cases — which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has blamed a deliberate misinformation campaign by anti-vaccine activists for — many Americans are wondering whether they need to be vaccinated.
Measles continues to spread in the United States, federal health officials said Monday, surpassing 700 cases this year as health officials around the country sought aggressive action to stem the worst outbreak in decades.
The number of measles cases in the United States has risen to 695, the highest annual number recorded since the disease was declared eliminated in this country in 2000, federal health officials said Wednesday.
(Global Health): Faced with an expanding measles outbreak, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York declared a public health emergency Tuesday and ordered a program of mandatory vaccination in parts of Brooklyn.
(Science Times): JACKSON, Miss. — “I come from the smallest town in Mississippi, in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” said Gerald Gibson, outreach manager at Open Arms Healthcare Center, the only clinic created to serve gay black men in this state.
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