Latest - HIV/AIDS

• AIDS 2024 Twice-Yearly PrEP Gives 'Huge' 100% Protection Final results of the highly anticipated PURPOSE 1 trial of lenacapavir show the shots prevent new infections without many side effects.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• New PCSK9s Nearing Market Will Help Meet Cholesterol Targets Different formulations and dosing schedules are expected to help many more patients reach LDL goals.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• AIDS 2024 Remembering HIV Leaders Shot Down in Plane HIV researchers and activists were killed when a missile hit their passenger airplane over Ukraine 10 years ago in the deadliest shoot-down incident to this day.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• Laboratory-Developed Meat: Ethicist Says It's Worth Pursuing   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for laboratory-developed meat.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 22, 2024
• Pawscription Pads: Docs and Their Dogs 2024 Discover the perfect prescription for doctors' ruff days: the wet kisses and warm hearts of their dogs.
  Medscape News Slideshows, July 22, 2024
• Long COVID Risk Has Dropped Since Start of Pandemic Your chances of developing long COVID have significantly decreased since the pandemic began, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
  WebMD Health News, July 19, 2024
• AIDS 2024 PURPOSE 1 Lenacapavir Results 'Highly Anticipated' The twice-yearly injectable preexposure prophylaxis demonstrated 100% efficacy at interim results. Now, specialists are sharing what they are looking forward to seeing at AIDS 2024 in Munich.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024
• AIDS 2024 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AIDS 2024
  Medscape HIV/AIDS, July 16, 2024
• Medscape Doctors Evaluate Medicare and Medicaid Report 2024 Physicians reveal their Medicare and Medicaid patient counts, how crucial those programs are to business success, and how they feel about reimbursement rates.
  Medscape News Slideshows, July 12, 2024
• New Mid-Year Vaccine Recommendations From ACIP Important changes to vaccination recommendations for COVID, flu, RSV, and pneumococcal disease -- and what's behind the changes -- are summarized here.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 11, 2024
• Olympic Mindset Tips Tailor-Made for Stressed-Out Physicians No medals for second place in medicine. Use these mindset techniques from Olympic sports psychologists so you can excel under high stress like a world-class athlete.
  Medscape Medical News, July 10, 2024
• Be Alert for Conjunctivitis: New Human Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu   Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 09, 2024
• Infographic: PAs Feel Content With Jobs Despite Challenges A Medscape survey found that physician assistants (PAs) generally expressed high satisfaction with their careers despite various challenges.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• US, Mexican Border Restrictions Did Not Reduce HIV Infection Measures to restrict traffic across Mexico's northern border to contain the spread of COVID-19 resulted in an increase in HIV-1 transmission among injectable drug users.
  Medscape Medical News, July 09, 2024
• No HIV Infections After Twice-a-Year PrEP Patients at a high risk for HIV infection who received preexposure prophylactic injections with lenacapavir had 100% efficacy in a phase 3 clinical trial.
  Medscape Medical News, July 05, 2024
• Cold, Flu Virus Can Trigger Long COVID Relapses Those who treat and research long COVID warn that viral persistence and reactivation are real risks for some patients.
  Medscape Medical News, July 02, 2024
• How Facial Temperature Reveals Age and Disease Find out why Dr F. Perry Wilson says that the medical tricorder perhaps wasn't as fanciful as it seemed when it was used by Dr Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek."
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• Medscape Physician Assistant Career Satisfaction Report 2024 Despite overall career satisfaction among physician assistants, a minority express concerns about their relationship with doctors, patients, and administrators.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, June 28, 2024
• Online Diagnosis of STIs? Ethicist Says We Are Nowhere Close Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the use of websites for diagnosing sexually transmitted diseases.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, June 24, 2024