A study tracking new cases of HIV among gay and bisexual men in London and Brighton has identified the key risk factors predicting subsequent HIV infection in recent years. By far the most important was injecting drugs, largely in a chemsex context. Although only 3% of the men in the study reported injecting drugs, 16% of… Read More: Chemsex is top of the list of risk factors for… »
New analysis finds infections started to fall in 2013, but older gay men lag behind An analysis of HIV diagnoses and incidence in English gay and bisexual men by Dr Francesco Brizzi and colleagues from the Medical Research Council has found that new HIV infections fell by more than two-thirds between 2013 and 2018. If… Read More: HIV infection may become rare in UK gay men by… »
The condition, known as mucormycosis, has a high mortality rate and was present in India before the pandemic. It is caused by a mould that thrives in wet environments and can attack through the respiratory tract, potentially eroding facial structures and harming the brain. The condition is relatively rare, but doctors and medical experts say… Read More: A potentially fatal fungal infection is appearing in India’s COVID… »
A small study strengthens evidence that a pregnant woman infected with the coronavirus might be able to spread it to her fetus. Researchers from Italy said Thursday that they studied 31 women with COVID-19 who delivered babies in March and April. They found signs of the virus in several samples of umbilical cord blood, the… Read More: Fetal coronavirus infection may be possible, Italian study suggests »