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The Strange Case of the Man Who Didn’t Drink Alcohol But Often Appeared Drunk 0
- Health & Medicine
- February 10, 2020
Patient X had been a healthy man. He was in his forties, with no medical or psychiatric episodes, and lived a normal life, until the day he had a thumb injury, in January 2011. Doctors treated patient X with antibiotics, and episodes of depression, aggressive behaviour and “brain fog” started to occur. One day, in
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Thai Doctors Use Anti-HIV and Anti-flu Drugs to Treat Patients with Coronavirus Infection 0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- February 5, 2020
Thai doctors are using a combination of anti-flu and anti-HIV drugs to treat patients infected with coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
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Novel Coronavirus (nCoV): Updates (24 January 2020)0
- Covid-19, Flash News, Health & Medicine
- January 24, 2020
Infections and death toll More than 800 cases of infection have been confirmed so far. Most of the patients have had some contact with a seafood market in the city of Wuhan, China. Infections have also been confirmed in Thailand, Japan, the United States of America and the Republic of Korea. Twenty-six people have died, two
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Coronavirus Outbreak in Asia: a Brief Chronology 0
- Covid-19, Health & Medicine
- January 16, 2020
31 December 2019: The SARS-like outbreak is publicly announced. The infection cases were reported in a seafood market in the city of Wuhan, China. 7 January 2020: Chinese authorities isolated and identify a new coronavirus (novel coronavirus, nCov). Other respiratory pathogens, such as influenza, adenovirus, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), were ruled out
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Cancer is the Leading Cause of Death in High-Income Countries 0
- Flash News, Health & Medicine
- September 4, 2019
Cancer kills twice as much as cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and is now the leading cause of death in high-income countries, according to a report from the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiologic (PURE) study. CVD remain, however, the leading cause of mortality among middle-aged adults worldwide. (See Infographic Below) Study Design For over ten years, the
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Continued Contact with Semen Shields Women Against HIV Acquisition 0
- Health & Medicine
- August 22, 2019
Continued exposure to semen decreases the risk of HIV infection in women, says a study published yesterday in Nature Communications. Investigators from the Wistar Institute, in Philadelphia, USA, found that semen, the main vehicle in male-to-female HIV transmission, changes the vaginal and cervical environment in non-human primates, thus promoting protection to the host. Importantly, semen
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