Articles by Léa Surugue

Léa Surugue

Email : l.surugue@ibtimes.co.uk

Growing up with HIV

Growing up with HIV: Stigma, secrets and breakthrough

Mother to child transmission of HIV has nearly disappeared in the UK thanks to antiretroviral therapy since the AIDS epidemic started in the 1980s. Four people reveal what it's like to live with the virus.

Aug 25, 2017

Ancient Rome painting

Ancient Roman painting buried for thousands of years after Vesuvius eruption gets a new life

Painting of a young woman was damaged when it was excavated 70 years ago.

Aug 21, 2017

Princess Diana HIV

How Princess Diana changed attitudes to AIDS and challenged HIV stigma

Princess Diana touched the hands of HIV positive patients in public at the height of the epidemic, in the 1980s.

Aug 19, 2017

Princess Diana Prince Harry Rihanna

Genetic infertility: New method can help men with too many sex chromosomes have babies

Abnormalities of sex chromosomes are the most common genetic cause of infertility.

Aug 18, 2017

Wax

Pubic service announcement: Hair-grooming injuries are more common than you think

The most common injuries are cuts, followed by burns and rashes.

Aug 17, 2017

HIV AIDS US

Five of the biggest myths about HIV - and how you can debunk them

HIV is not passed on via casual contact or saliva.

Aug 17, 2017

AIDS Sexual health

World Aids Day 2016

HIV timeline: Ten dates that changed the face of the AIDS epidemic

A lot of progress has been made since the 1980s to combat HIV and AIDS.

Aug 17, 2017

Cryptococcus

Scientists discover how to stop deadly Cryptococcus fungus from reaching the brain

The pathogen can hijack the immune system to spread throughout the body.

Aug 16, 2017

How cosmic jellyfish fuel supermassive black holes

Jellyfish galaxies are intriguing as they can shed light on galaxy evolution.

Aug 16, 2017

Chilesaurus dinosaur

Bizarre 'Frankenstein' chilesaurus is the missing link on dinosaur family tree

Chilesaurus has baffled scientists since its discovery in 2015.

Aug 16, 2017

Maya village

'Maya Pompeii' offers snapshot of ancient village frozen in time by massive volcanic eruption

Joya de Cerén was a small Maya village buried under ash in the 7th century.

Aug 15, 2017

Supermassive black hole 26,000 light years from us proves Einstein right

The stars orbiting the black hole behave as predicted by the general theory of relativity.

Aug 15, 2017

Cannabis

Third of medical cannabis smokers in US use it to help PTSD, but new study finds it doesn't help

There has been an ongoing debate about whether marijuana can help treat PTSD.

Aug 14, 2017

Sexology

How mindfulness can improve your sex life

Mindfulness-based therapy can help women overcome sexual dysfunction problems

Aug 14, 2017

Ancient Egypt: Archaeologists think they've found a secret chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza

Last year, the team located two 'anomalies' inside one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

Aug 11, 2017

Chimpanzees learn to play Rock, Paper, Scissors

The animals performed like four-year-old human children.

Aug 11, 2017

world asteroid day

Asteroid as big as a house will fly by between the Earth and Moon this October

Asteroid has already been spotted flying close to Earth in 2012.

Aug 11, 2017

Auditory hallucination: What happens when people hear voices

Scientists investigate factors the factors that contribute to auditory hallucinations.

Aug 11, 2017

wolf snow

Ancient Russian men sacrificed and ate dogs as a rite of passage into adulthood

Signs of the gruesome rituals were identified in the Russian steppes.

Aug 10, 2017

cannibals

Magdalenians carved human bones in cannibalistic rituals 15,000 years ago

Many bones bearing strange marks were recovered in Gough's cave in the UK.

Aug 9, 2017

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