Spanish doctors highlight the importance of targeting and testing older adults for HIV in a case report being presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) held online this year. Dr. Enrique Garcia Carus and colleagues from the Central University Hospital of Asturias detail the case of an 83-year-old man with […]
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Newly FDA-Approved Contraceptive Gel is Not Your Momma’s Spermicide
In the years that the IUD and birth control pill have become more popular, spermicide and spermicide-adjacent methods (diaphragms and caps included) have fallen out of vogue. However, a newly approved non-hormonal contraceptive gel from Evofem Biosciences might end up being part of a new renaissance for the old method — particularly for people who […]
Newly developed tool for psychological studies to be tested in investigation of laughter
Software for an innovative wearable that could optimize the collection of data in psychological studies is being developed by researchers at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Krems, Austria (KL Krems). The device will be tested on around 150 subjects as part of an investigation entitled “Laughter in everyday life.” The advantage of the […]
Newly discovered immune cell linked to type 1 diabetes
In a discovery that might be likened to finding medicine’s version of the Loch Ness monster, a research team from Johns Hopkins Medicine, IBM Research and four collaborating institutions is the first to document the existence of long-doubted “X cell,” a “rogue hybrid” immune system cell that may play a key role in the development […]
Newly formed blood vessels may contribute to eye disease
Newly formed blood vessels may be cracks in the barrier between the bloodstream and the eye, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A novel experiment led by Jing Jin, MD, Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine in the Department of Nephrology and Hypertension and senior author […]