Why “normal range” doesn’t always mean healthy on your lab results Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel ...

CD4 tests are strongly recommended as the preferred method to identify advanced HIV disease among people living with HIV, the World Health Organization (WHO) has strongly recommended in its 2025 ...

Thanks to modern medicine, people living with HIV can now live long and healthy lives. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has greatly reduced serious HIV-related illnesses by controlling the virus and ...

I am lying under a blanket, feeling rough, staring at a bowl of oranges. Every fibre of my being is urging me to devour the lot. I can hear my mum – and medical friends at university – insisting that ...

1 Department of Medicine, Security Forces Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. 2 Laboratory and Blood Bank Department, Security Forces Hospital, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. We present a rare case of a ...

HIV and tuberculosis (TB) remain closely linked public health threats in sub-Saharan Africa, with South Africa bearing the highest burden of both diseases. In KwaZulu-Natal, where HIV prevalence peaks ...

Living with HIV means becoming fluent in a language of numbers that might seem confusing at first but actually hold the key to your health and future. Two numbers in particular – your viral load and ...

A panelist discusses how CD4 counts serve as measures of immune system status that typically increase by about 200 in the first year of antiretroviral therapy. Although there can be laboratory ...

In late March, a group of Republicans in California sparked controversy for their plan to host an event dubbed “A Normal Gay Social.” The party referenced something JD Vance said before the 2024 ...

The pursuit of being seen as “normal” has served the LGBTQ movement well. But is there such a thing as too normal? In late March, a group of Republicans in California sparked controversy for their ...