Just when the world thought it could be entering the post-Covid phase, a new public health emergency has surfaced. In less than 100 days, monkeypox, a viral disease with symptoms similar to smallpox but clinically less severe, has spread from two cases in the UK on May 13 to more than 26,000 cases a
The largest study so far of monkeypox cases worldwide has revealed that 98 per cent of those infected were men who have sex with men (MSMs) and 41 per cent of the patients had HIV infection.
It’s easy to find attention-grabbing headlines about medical malpractice lawsuits with multimillion-dollar payouts for mistakes during surgery, errors in prescriptions and faulty diagnoses.
Something unheard of happened last Sunday. Medical oncologists from New York told the world that they had removed all traces of rectal cancer in 14 patients without using standard treatments of radiation, surgery or chemotherapy. All they used was immunotherapy, a drug called Dostarlimab, administer
A new bill proposed by House Republicans would require boards of health to "promote and increase distribution" of drugs, such as ivermectin, to combat COVID-19. Health professionals who don’t do this would be penalized.