Despite improvements in the quality of sexual health screening over the past decade, men who have sex with men living in many European cities report not having tests that would detect rectal gonorrhoea or chlamydia, data from the European MSM Internet Survey (EMIS) show. Improvements have mostly been seen in western Europe, with gaps most… Read More »
Courtesy National Pest Management Association April showers bring May flowers, but abnormal fall and winter weather can bring cockroaches, rats, and mosquitoes. Yikes! If you live in any of these ten cities, you’re at greatest risk. During the winter, it can be all too easy to completely stop worrying about pests. It’s too cold for… Read More »
From our Obsession Because China Even small changes in China have global effects. China is turning to potentially risky measures to track down more patients of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed at least 900 people. The number of infections from the new virus soared to cross 40,000 as of Sunday (Feb. 9). At least… Read More »
A study that compared PrEP usage rates in 19 US cities with the rates of HIV diagnosis has found that the cities with the highest rates of PrEP use in at-risk people had nearly 16% fewer diagnoses than the cities with the lowest rates, after adjusting for the proportion of people with HIV on treatment… Read More »
One in seven people living with HIV in the United States don’t know their status. Walgreens and the Greater Than AIDS campaign aim to change this by offering free HIV testing at Walgreens pharmacies in more than 260 cites on Thursday, June 27. Why this day? Because it’s National HIV Testing Day (NHTD). According to… Read More »
Some measures of inequality can be inferred from imagesTangMan Photography/Getty By Donna Lu Social and economic inequality has no easy fix, but now a system that automatically detects signs of inequality from street images could be used to help. Esra Suel and colleagues at Imperial College London trained artificial intelligence to detect inequalities in four… Read More »