Menopause has long been treated as a quiet, private ordeal. That silence carries a cost. On World Menopause Day, bringing menopause out of the shadows is not a niche concern but a public priority with tangible dividends for health, equity, and…
Category: 6. Health
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Final report from the audit of the HIV PrEP standards of care
ECDC, in collaboration with EACS (the European AIDS Clinical Society), is developing modules of HIV care standards to improve service access and quality. The pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) Standards of Care module was among the first developed….
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New guidance from ECDC and EACS aims to raise standards of HIV care, focusing on lifelong health
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) have released two new additions to a series of European standards of care for HIV, which cover key aspects of HIV prevention, testing and…
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Novel HIV combo therapy of lenacapavir and 2 bNAbs found effective, well tolerated in Phase 2 trial
Combining lenacapavir (LEN, Gilead) and two broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) could be a good option for HIV treatment in certain patients, according to results of a phase 2 trial presented at EACS 2025, in Paris.
The investigators (abstract…
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Adjuvant Nivolumab Displays Long-Term Activity in Resected Melanoma
Adjuvant nivolumab (Opdivo) generated a long-term efficacy benefit compared with ipilimumab (Yervoy) for the treatment of patients with resected stage IIIB to IIIC or IV melanoma, according to final data from the phase 3 CheckMate 238 trial…
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Rare New Form of Diabetes Is Unique to Babies, Scientists Report : ScienceAlert
Scientists have identified a single gene that gives rise to a rare form of diabetes, unique to newborn babies. Mutations of this gene can disable and ultimately kill off insulin-producing cells.
The new discovery reveals that the pancreas’s…
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Investigational HIV bNAb N6LS shown safe, tolerable in Phase 2b trial
Researchers have posted good results showing favorable tolerability, few infusion site reactions (ISRs), and no serious drug-related adverse events (AEs) of the phase 2b trial of the investigational ultra–long-acting broadly neutralizing…
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Birth defect risk not impacted by COVID-19 vaccination
First-trimester messenger RNA (mRNA)-based COVID-19 vaccine exposure does not increase major congenital malformation (MCM) risk, according to a recent study published in JAMA Network Open.1
Data has indicated significantly increased severe…
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