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Study of injectable PrEP reports the best efficacy seen yet for any form of PrEP in women

HPTN 084 study finds significantly lower adherence in women taking daily PrEP pills A second study of an injectable HIV drug used to prevent HIV has had its randomised phase stopped early after it became clear that giving women a two-monthly injection of a prevention drug resulted in nearly nine times fewer infections than giving… Read More »

Here’s Where You’ve Seen Dafne Keen from His Dark Materials Before

Samuel de RomanGetty Images Dafne Keen stars as Lyra in the HBO fantasy series, His Dark Materials. She also starred alongside Hugh Jackman in Logan. Here’s what to know about HBO’s newest lead actress. The last time you saw Dafne Keen on screen she was doing everything Hugh Jackman couldn’t. The pair starred together in… Read More »

Smart toilets seen as future real-time health monitoring tech

Toilets are currently used for disposing of human waste. But researchers see tremendous value in the metabolic information contained in urine as a source of real-time monitoring of peoples’ health. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Morgridge Institute for Research are working on a proof of principle for an integrated “smart toilet” system… Read More »