A major UK clinical trial has shown that adding the corticosteroid dexamethasone to standard antiviral treatment for encephalitis (brain inflammation), caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV) does not ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

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The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved a US-drafted resolution endorsing President Donald Trump's 20-point plan for the devastated Gaza Strip. Authorising an International ...

Pritelivir demonstrated clinically meaningful and highly statistically significant superiority (p=0.0047) in lesion healing up to 28 days of treatment, compared with standard-of-care (SoC) treatments ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is ready to move to a second phase of sanctioning Russia, the closest he has come to suggesting he is on the verge of ramping up sanctions against Moscow ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 7 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he is ready to move to a second phase of sanctioning Russia, the closest he has come to suggesting he is on the verge of ...