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MYDAWA, the first online pharmacy in Kenya, has received $1.2 million in grant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop and evaluate innovative Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, or PrEP, delivery. The company says its new telehealth application enables end-to-end…

A study at the University of Jyväskylä found that men are biologically older than women. The observed sex difference is partially explained by men's more frequent smoking and larger body size. In the Western world, life expectancy rapidly increased in…

A collaborative study led by the University of Oxford as part of the UK’s 100,000 Genomes Project, published in Nature Genetics today, has defined five new subgroups of the most common type of blood cancer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and…

It’s pretty normal to walk through a university campus and see students sitting together, yet ignoring each other for their smartphones—but not in Spain. I’m currently visiting the University of Navarra, where each time I pass the open space outside…

Rutgers researchers think they have identified a biological process for drug and alcohol addiction, and believe existing insomnia treatments could be used to reduce or eliminate cravings. A review in Biological Psychiatry explains how ongoing work at the Rutgers Brain…

Tracing the metabolism of tumor cells using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has not been feasible in routine clinical settings hitherto. Now, an interdisciplinary research team including the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is working to advance the development of a…

What did the fat say to the brain? For years, it was assumed that hormones passively floating through the blood were the way that a person’s fat — called adipose tissue — could send information related to stress and metabolism…

According to a study, type 1 diabetes could be prevented by inhibiting a gene associated with the onset of the disease. A drug based on the same mechanism has already been approved for the treatment of another autoimmune disease psoriasis…

Physician Bias Against Disabilities Some clinicians are refusing to take people with disabilities on as patients, according to a new study. Though small, the research sheds an alarming light on why people with disabilities have worse outcomes, including undetected cancer, obesity,…

(Reuters) – GSK’s blood cancer drug Blenrep failed the main goal of a late-stage study designed to show it was better than an existing treatment on the market, the company said on Monday. Oncology is a key area of focus…