In mid-September, Fiji's government declared a national emergency because of a startling rise in HIV infections. The country's crystal meth epidemic is a strong contributing factor.

Despite supporting vaccines, many U.S. adults forgo shots for influenza and other respiratory diseases because they are unclear about the recommendations, according to survey results released Thursday.“Last year’s respiratory season was another reminder that these illnesses — flu, COVID-19, RSV and pneumococcal disease — while often common, are not always mild,”

Patients with HIV who took once-weekly islatravir and lenacapavir tablets maintained virological suppression in investigational trials, the drug manufacturers announced.

One received the prize for his work on a sleep-regulating brain chemical, and a trio, for discovering an antibody therapy for hemophilia A patients.

Many groundbreaking works in art and science owe their origins to the creative spark ignited by reimagination – the process whereby artists and scientists reinterpret and reframe past and existing knowledge, envisioning it in a new context that reveals new possibilities.

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Services for mothers and children continue to suffer in the meantime

Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.

A Nature analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies — and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain.

The thymus is essential for establishing T cell diversity early in life, but undergoes profound involution with age and has therefore traditionally been regarded as largely nonfunctional in adults1,2. Here we propose that preserving thymic functionality is integral to adult health and longevity. We developed a deep learning framework to quantify thymic health from routine radiographic images and evaluated its association with longevity and risk of major age-associated diseases in two large prospective cohorts of asymptomatic adults: the National Lung Screening Trial (n = 25,031) and the...