Saudi Arabia remains the least affected Arab country by the HIV virus despite being the largest country in the Arab world. According to a report released by the Ministry of Health on the World Aids Day, “there is a significant decrease of 6.1 percent in AIDS cases among Saudis compared to 2011 and by 1.8 percent compared to 2010.”
Read MoreMultivitamins May Help Fight HIV Progression: Study
But supplements tested only on those who hadn't started medications
New research from Africa suggests that basic multivitamin and selenium supplements might greatly lower the risk that untreated people with the AIDS virus will get sicker over a two-year period.
It's not clear how patients who take the vitamins and mineral might fare over longer periods. And the impact of the study in the United States will be limited because many Americans diagnosed with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, immediately begin treatment with powerful medications known as anti-retroviral drugs. Those in the African study hadn't yet begun taking drugs to keep the virus at bay.
Read MoreMERS Claims 53rd Victim in Kingdom; 1 Dies in Oman
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Read MoreJEDDAH — Tuberculosis patients are reportedly wandering freely in Al-Thagr Hospital, according to Al-Hayat newspaper.
Read MoreA recent study conducted by the Ministry of Health on the novel Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) revealed that the virus is more complex than previously conceived and indicates the presence of additional sources of the virus.
MERS-CoV has affected 107 people in the Kingdom, of which 49 have died. Researchers from the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) have been working to sequence the virus to discover how it is spreading. The initiative was made in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the University of Edinburgh and the University College London (UCL).
Read MoreScientists have moved closer to finding a vaccine against all forms of flu after a study identified the role of a common cell in resisting the virus.
British research on hundreds of people which began during the 2009 swine flu pandemic has examined why it was that some were more likely than others to be struck down by the illness.
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Drug-resistant 'Superbugs' Deemed Urgent Threats, CDC Says
Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, a diarrhea-causing superbug and a class of fast-growing killer bacteria dubbed a "nightmare" were classified as urgent public-health threats in the United States on Monday.
Measles Still Poses Threat to US, Health Officials Warn
Although measles was officially "eliminated" in the United States in 2000, public health officials warned Thursday that the highly contagious, and sometimes deadly, virus continues to be imported from Europe and other parts of the world where the disease is still common. Despite high vaccination rates nationwide, measles continues to cause outbreaks in individual communities with large numbers of unvaccinated persons.
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