10 Minutes of Video Gaming Everyday May Enhance Esport Skills: Study

Washington, March 29: A new study has found that video gamers can significantly improve their esport skills by training for just 10 minutes a day. The findings of the study were published in the journal ‘Computers in Human Behavior’. Researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, and the University of Limerick… Read More »

‘Vaccines alone won’t get out us out of lockdown cycle – we need border control’

I hear people saying over and over again in interviews their greatest fear is that when restrictions are eased we’ll get another spike of ­infections and a further lockdown. So how do we dodge them? We’re pinning our hopes on our exemplary vaccination rollout and it is undoubtedly bringing hospital admissions and deaths down. But… Read More »

Not all PrEP programmes are screening for STIs

There are significant gaps in the provision of STI testing services in PrEP programmes, according to research published in the Journal of the International AIDS Society. Analysis of 91 separate programmes showed that 30% were not routinely testing for STIs either before treatment was started or at regular intervals thereafter. Screening rates were higher in… Read More »