Lenacapavir, an antiviral drug already approved as a treatment that costs $40,000 in the US, prevented 100% of infections in a study on African women with just two injections a year. UNAIDS is asking the drugmaker Gilead to reduce the cost in order to make it more widely available
Taking a single dose of doxycycline within 72 hours following high-risk contact can eliminate more than 80% of cases of two of the most common sexually transmitted infections
A center in Córdoba is leading a European study to determine the incidence of the disease, transmitted by rodents and the first diagnosis of which occurred in 2018 in Hong Kong
Emblaveo has been developed by Pfizer and AbbVie, with the help of the EU and the United States, and is effective against some multidrug-resistant infections that have been untreatable until now
The researcher, who revolutionized the discipline by describing new types of autoimmune encephalitis, is researching the consequences that these processes leave in the body
A legislative reform being prepared by the European Union plans to promote the use of already approved drugs to treat other illnesses. Doing so will speed up the approval of treatments and save on research costs
Frequency of injections, the body’s immune response and errors in the administration of the drug can shorten the amount of time a patient will enjoy their desired results
The United Kingdom has introduced restrictions for non-immunized children in Birmingham, while Romania has declared a national epidemic after three deaths were reported
Health authorities are encouraging countries to strengthen surveillance systems and to report any changes in the incidence or severity of detected cases
The commercial strategy of the pharmaceutical company Bluebird Bio, which left the EU after a dispute with Germany over the price of another drug, leaves dozens of minors suffering from a rare fatal hereditary disease with no treatment
The minutes of a meeting of the Advisory Forum of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reveal how eradicating the virus was ruled out as being too costly and counterproductive
Considered an exclusively tropical disease only a decade ago, it is now endemic in Spain after an increase in the number of diagnoses in patients who contracted the illness without traveling abroad
A team of German physicians treating war-wounded soldiers and civilians have warned about the high number of antibiotic-resistant pathogens they have identified
The new and million-dollar gene treatment make the disease remit almost completely for four or five years. Open investigations now seek a definitive cure
Spanish expert Esteve Fernández applauds New Zealand’s initiative to phase out access to tobacco entirely but warns that the industry is using e-cigarettes to create new generations of smokers
A lack of transparency over the scale of the latest outbreak and concerns over the possibility of new variants emerging have led to new restrictions in several countries
The Spanish researcher believes that the Asian country has made a mistake in going from a zero-Covid policy to a nearly unrestricted one, as its population has low vaccination coverage