Symptoms of depression and dementia among HIV patients could be attributed to the viruses ability to kill off neurons in the brain, according to a …
Category: Infectious Diseases
Olympic health concerns – for the spectators
If you've begun stoking Olympic fever by watching trials for U.S. athletes, it may be of interest to know some of the ways London officials …
Before stepping foot in a spa, consider these pedicure safety tips
Your mother might have warned you about fungal infections and other horror stories from the pedicure chair. At least mine did. Being a ballet dancer, …
Harnessing evolutionary forces to develop more effective methods for treating superbugs
Bacteria don't just develop a resistance to drugs; rather the process of natural selection combined with the microbes' ability to rapidly multiply result in the …
Remote hospitals draw power from off-grid cell towers to maintain vaccine “cold chain”
As previously reported on Scope, unreliable power grids and a lack of refrigeration services in developing nations poses a significant challenge in distributing vaccines to …
A call for safe sex awareness to combat HIV in China
So far, the spread of HIV in China has remained at levels less than one-fifth that of Europe and the United States, but now researchers …
PEPFAR has saved lives – and not just from HIV/AIDS, Stanford study finds
PEPFAR, the largest U.S. initiative ever devoted to a single disease, has helped save lives from all causes, not just HIV/AIDS, a new Stanford study …
FDA panel recommends use of new cost-effective tool to curb AIDS epidemic
In a very promising step forward, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel has taken the unusual step of recommending approval of the first once-a-day …
Science weighs in on food safety and the three-second rule
Here's something that may interest those who adhere to the belief that food dropped on the floor is safe to eat if pick up within …
Malaria protection in wearable form
Two Cornell University affiliates have created a sophisticated suit built to keep away mosquitos and the malaria they may carry. A release details the reasoning …
Using crowdsourcing to diagnose malaria
Can large groups of public non-experts be trained to recognize infectious diseases with the accuracy of a trained pathologist? Findings recently published in PLoS ONE …
Anthony Fauci: End of AIDS pandemic in sight
A young Anthony Fauci, MD, was ensconced in his office on the 11th floor of a National Institutes of Health clinical center in 1981 when …
Preventing HIV with daily drug is costly but useful
Imagine you could take a pill every day that would significantly reduce your chances of becoming infected with the AIDS virus. It could be an …
Could atmospheric air currents be transporting a rare infectious disease?
Researchers working to identify the culprit of a rare condition in children known as Kawasaki disease now have a new place to look: seasonal winds …
An encephalitis journey: A dozen doctors and 2.5 years
We're partnering with Inspire, a company that builds and manages online support communities for patients and caregivers, to launch a new series here on Scope. Once a …
A primer on hepatitis C
In light of research out this week showing that hepatitis C virus now kills more Americans annually than HIV, this Time Healthland Q&A may be of interest. …