Five Little Known Diseases To Watch Out For In 2017

The phrase “emerging disease”, to describe an infectious disease that is new to humans or which is suddenly increasing its geographical range or number of cases...

WHO Calls For Urgent Action To Curb Hepatitis

The World Health Organisations (WHO) is to use the 2015 World Hepatitis Day, slated for July 28 to highlight the urgent need for countries to enhance action aimed at preven...

Smart, Self-Destructing Syringes Could Save Millions Of Lives

In December 2014, Yem Chrin, an unlicensed Cambodian doctor, was charged with murder. By reusing the same syringe, he had infected over 270 people in a remote community in ...

How Did A Celibate 82-Year-Old Buddhist Monk Contract HIV?

An 82-year-old celibate Buddhist abbot from Cambodia has been diagnosed with HIV. His doctor was the cause: He was reusing syringes and infected a reported 272 individuals,...

Drugs on EMI

People in an extremely backward Haryana town, where almost every fifth person has hepatitis C, are forced to seek treatment on EMIs

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HIV infection due to unsafe medical injections may have fallen by almost 90% worldwide in decade after 2000

The number of HIV infections in low- and middle-income acquired due to unsafe medical injections by 87% between 2000 and 2010, investigators report in PLOS One. The authors...

F.D.A. Approves Pill to Treat Hepatitis C

The Food and Drug Administration has approved Sovaldi, from Gilead Sciences, which will let some patients be treated for a minimum of 12 weeks, but at a cost of $1,000 per ...