Why you should stop scrolling in the bathroom and the unsavory truth about your phone.

Published Date: 26 Apr 2023

More than 90% of people in the world own or use a mobile phone, and many of us couldn't live without them. We carry them everywhere we go, use them in bed and the bathroom, and for many people, they are the first thing they see in the morning.

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The University of Oxford has launched the first human trial of a vaccine against Bundibugyo ebolavirus, seeking to accelerate ⁠efforts to combat an outbreak spreading in the...

Among treatment-naive adults living with HIV, CD4 to CD8 ratios do not differ significantly between those on dolutegravir plus lamivudine and those on integrase inhibitor-based three-drug regimens.

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Ebola response workers in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo staged protests outside three treatment centres on Thursday, saying ⁠they had not been paid all they were...

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has not yet stabilised and is still expanding as population ⁠movement fuels transmission, a World Health Organization official said on...

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