Latest - HIV/AIDS

• Comparing Your Pay Against Your Peers’: Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2025 US physicians report their 2024 compensation and satisfaction with it. Differences in doctor pay by gender, racial and ethnic group, and medical specialty are revealed.
  Medscape News Slideshows, April 11, 2025
• Why Listening to Patients Matters in Rare Disease Research Gene therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all: Patient associations are shaping trials, asking hard questions, and demanding realistic timelines for treatment delivery.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• AAN 2025 AI-Powered Wearable Calms Essential Tremor The Felix NeuroAI wristband delivers tailored and dynamic electrical stimulation to the ulnar, median, and radial nerves throughout the day to relieve essential tremor.
  Medscape Medical News, April 10, 2025
• Trump Administration Plans to Remove All Members Of HIV Advisory Council -The Trump administration plans to remove all the members of a presidential advisory council on HIV/AIDS and provided no timeline for replacing them as the government...
  Reuters Health Information, April 09, 2025
• Experts Push Back on RFK Jr’s Infection Comments The new Secretary of Health and Human Services has made claims about measles and other communicable diseases that could lead to sickness, and even death, his critics claim.
  Medscape Medical News, April 09, 2025
• US Aid Cuts: S Sudan Cholera Patients Die Walking to Clinic Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to...
  Reuters Health Information, April 08, 2025
• HIV Crisis Looms Amid Global Aid Cuts Global progress against HIV is at risk as aid cuts could trigger millions of new infections and deaths, potentially setting efforts back to 2010 levels, experts warn.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Federal HIV Funding Cuts Push Pause on Progress Patients who lose medication access will experience disease progression and risk for death, experts emphasize.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Canada’s Supervised Consumption Sites Come Under Fire Studies document the efficacy of SCS, and physicians support their role in decreasing deaths due to drug overdose.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2025
• Aid Cuts Could Leave More Women Dying in Pregnancy and Birth Cuts to aid budgets are threatening to undermine years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, and could lead to a rise in deaths,...
  Reuters Health Information, April 06, 2025
• Is There a Future for Combination Respiratory Vaccines? Opportunities abound, but not without serious challenges, says Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, former England Deputy Chief Medical Officer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape, April 04, 2025
• How Office Props Improve Patient Outcomes Showing patients props and other visual aids improves recall of information, motivates patients, said doctors who have expanded their ‘black bags.’
  Medscape Medical News, April 04, 2025
• Gene Therapy: Medical Progress Has a Price, Says Ethicist   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses progress in gene therapy research and the need for medical professionals and regulators to tolerate appropriate risk.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 01, 2025
• Irony: An Obituary   Dr F. Perry Wilson delivers irony’s eulogy.
  Medscape, April 01, 2025
• Can Repurposed Smallpox Vaccine Prove Effective for Mpox? The modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic vaccine, originally approved for smallpox, is safe and well tolerated in at-risk individuals, with one dose offering protection against mpox.
  Medscape News UK, March 31, 2025
• Johnson & Johnson Unit Ordered to Pay $1.64 Billion in HIV Drug Marketing Case A federal judge ordered a Johnson & Johnson unit on Friday to pay the U.S. government $1.64 billion after a jury found it liable in a whistleblower lawsuit for illegally...
  Reuters Health Information, March 28, 2025
• Antibiotic-Resistant Gonorrhoea Cases Rise in England Health officials have warned of rising antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea cases, including extensively drug-resistant strains.
  Medscape News UK, March 27, 2025
• The Ethical Consequences of the New Administration   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the ethical consequences of the new administration.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, March 27, 2025
• Europe Grapples With Rising Childhood TB Pediatric TB cases are rising across Europe and Central Asia, indicating ongoing transmission and raising concern around multidrug-resistant strains.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2025
• Switching to Three-Drug Regimen Maintains HIV Suppression Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance does not affect efficacy when adults with HIV suppressed on bPI-based regimen switch to bictegravir plus emtricitabine plus tenofovir alafenamide.
  Medscape Medical News, March 27, 2025