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The US has also put up a Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) initially established in 1999 (then called the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile), that holds a broad range of emergency medicines — ...

One North Carolina city offers a window into how Medicaid cuts may affect national efforts to address opioid addiction and ...

Francois Venter, a big rock climber, once drank tequila with the PhD-holding virologist rockstar Dexter Holland of The ...

Francois Venter talks about his unorthodox inaugural lecture, his work during the Aids crisis and his shoot-from-the-hip fix ...

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In the early days of the HIV and AIDS crisis, fear and uncertainty overshadowed hope. Between 1980 and 1995, the epidemic ...

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Richard Chaisson, a physician who helped lead the fight against AIDS at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in the late '80s and '90s, described the feeling to the New England Journal of Medicine.

The quest for weight loss has taken a dramatic turn. A wave of new-age solutions, from once-weekly injectables like Wegovy ...

Operationalising de-addiction centres and implementing inclusive policies are critical to addressing the escalating substance abuse emergency in the region S ...