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The facts about the risks and benefits of drinking coffee.

Treating HIV early, before CD4s drop significantly, lowers the risk of infection-related cancers.

Highlights from research presented at the 52nd International Liver Congress in Amsterdam

One quarter of men and one fifth of women have high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause various cancers.

The increased risk of some virus-associated cancers, such as non–Hodgkin lymphoma, did not appear driven by increased sexual risk taking.

As AIDS-related cancers decline and the HIV population ages, the most common malignancies by 2030 will likely be those related to aging.

This elevated risk, seen among a group largely uncured of hep C, remained even when factoring out liver cancer.

People with HIV in British Columbia have a shorter life expectancy and spend longer living with illnesses compared with those without HIV.

But do Scott Gottlieb’s interests lie with drugmakers or patients?

However, unlike HIV-negative quitters, their lung disease risk remains highly elevated for at least five years after kicking the habit.

Highlights from the hep C–related studies presented at the 2017 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle

Taking a new look at the global START trial, published to great fanfare in 2015, researchers parsed the reduced cancer risk.

Immunotherapy and an HIV vaccine are among the first round of grants from Fred Hutch’s Evergreen Fund.

Eric Winer also notes that “the stigma...based on medical illness can be devastating.”

The death rate has surged in areas of Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio where injection drug use also poses a high risk of HIV and hep C.

Obama signs the biggest health legislation since his Affordable Care Act. What strings are attached?