The influenza virus has a high rate of mutation and can develop drug resistance. Research has found derivatives of usnic acid can effectively inhibit the reproduction of the influenza virus in the lab and animal models.1 The influenza virus causes a contagious respiratory illness better known as flu.2 The virus infects your nose, throat and… Read More: Usnic Acid Inhibits Viral Respiratory Infection »
Hundreds of police officers will be sent back to other duties as Greater Sydney residents enter Queensland for the first time in 2021. The Sunshine State reopened to the city at 1am on Monday, 42 days after locking the five million residents out just days before Christmas over fears of the Northern Beaches cluster. The… Read More: Qld reopens to Sydney as Perth shut out »
An Argentinian woman, now in her 50s, has controlled HIV below the limits of detection since stopping HIV treatment due to side-effects in 2007, researchers from Buenos Aires and the US National Institutes of Health report. The woman no longer has antibodies to HIV and researchers found only a small number of cells containing HIV… Read More: The Buenos Aires patient: Argentinian woman controls HIV for at… »
Islatravir (MK-8591) is an antiretroviral drug with a novel mode of operation that has excited a lot of interest in the last two years because of its extraordinary persistence in the body. This means it may only need to be given once a week as an HIV treatment, and a subcutaneous implant that releases the drug might only… Read More: Once-a-month PrEP pill easily passes its first big test »