HIV rarely comes alone. That is why research takes a closer look at HIV viruses, and also at important pathogens of other infections like hepatitis and tuberculosis.
The WHO advises HIV-positive mothers against breastfeeding to avoid transmission. But more countries are now providing their own recommendations.
When people with HIV also have hepatitis B, clinical management can be complicated. Next is an update on optimising diagnostics and therapy.
How do wars affect the medical care of people with infectious diseases? This was a topic of debate at the AIDS 2022 Congress in Montreal.
Global health needs to be decolonised. Women living with HIV worldwide must not only be provided with programmes, but also empowered to develop their own.
Exploratory endpoints of the phase 3 PROpel trial favoured first-line abiraterone plus olaparib over abiraterone plus placebo in patients with mCRPC.
Cardiologist Dr. Domenico Miceli, describes some physicians' attitude towards female patients, calling for greater attention to sex and gender specificities.
With the help of AI, an online program processes patients' suicide requests and provides an activation code for a suicide capsule. Science fiction? Not quite.
The response to intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin treatment in patients with high-risk NMIBC could be predicted by molecular subtyping of the tumours.
In the EUPROMS 2.0 study, all therapies for patients with prostate cancer, other than active surveillance, were associated with a reduced quality of life.
Patients with N3 penile squamous cell cancer had a worse OS if they displayed extra-nodal extension in inguinal LNM or pelvic lymphadenopathy.
Dr Charlotte Decher reports on how VR technology is improving palliative care and what opportunities it offers for people at the end of life.
Monkeypox is currently spreading worldwide. In the process, the virus may be adapting more to humans, and a majority of cases are sexually transmitted.
A wave of mysterious hepatitis outbreaks in children is spreading worldwide. In the UK, a potential cause to these cases is being considered by scientists.
Exploratory analyses hint that the adjuvant improved overall survival of patients with post-operative carcinoma who had a positive ctDNA status.
In patients with suspected prostate cancer and positive (mp)MRI, targeted plus systematic biopsy did not perform better than targeted biopsy for its detection.
If NASA is to send people to Mars, it needs to know the effects of a space flight on the human body. The perfect solution: comparing an astronaut in space with his twin brother on Earth.
A large genome-wide association study revealed novel therapeutic targets for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) requiring surgery.
Darolutamide added to ADT and docetaxel improved the overall survival of patients with mHSPC, compared with a regimen of ADT, docetaxel, and placebo.
18F-DCFPyL PSMA PET/CT imaging did not demonstrate better accuracy than multiparametric MRI in diagnosing prostate cancer in a phase 3 trial.