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Celebrities, Mental Illness and the Public Habit of Interference

One in four people will suffer from a mental health problem at some point in their life. For people living in crisis or war situations, this figure gets much higher. It certainly seems to be higher for celebrities compared to t...

Scientists reach breakthrough on HIV treatment, public understanding lags behind

Scientists are a step closer to developing an antibody treatment for HIV, after the first human trial of a new therapy reduced the amount of virus in patients’ blood. A trial of 17 patients demonstrated that a high dose of a...

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