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Prince Harry's live HIV test has had a pretty huge impact on HIV testing

LONDON — Prince Harry's live streamed HIV test has prompted a surge in HIV self-testing, a HIV charity has revealed.

Prince Harry took a HIV test live on Facebook on July 14 to show how easy it is.

It was hailed by campaigners as a "groundbreaking moment in the fight against HIV.".

HIV awareness group the Terrence Higgins Trust has reported a five-fold increase in the number of orders of HIV self-tests since the prince's broadcast.

Prince Harry's live stream — which showed him taking a rapid HIV test at a sexual health clinic in London — gained over 2 million views.

However, orders for home test kits increased five-fold to 150 orders per day on the day of Prince Harry's live test.

Just like Prince Harry's rapid HIV test, the test requires a small drop of blood and can give you a 99.7% accurate result within 15 minutes. »

AT&T absurdly claims that most “legitimate” net neutrality comments favor repeal

Authored by arstechnica.com

Despite a study showing that 98.5 percent of individually written net neutrality comments support the US's current net neutrality rules, AT&T is claiming that the vast majority of "legitimate" comments favor repealing the rules.

Of those, 1.52 million were against FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to repeal the current Title II net neutrality rules, while just 23,000 were in favor of repeal.

Net neutrality advocacy group Fight for the Future argues that the most "real" comments are the ones written by individuals. »

We’ve just seen 15 new mysterious cosmic radio bursts from space

Authored by newscientist.com

One of the most mysterious objects in space just got even weirder.

A group of researchers just found 15 new fast radio bursts, all from the only one of these objects that we’ve ever seen repeat.

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are some of the universe’s strangest phenomena: powerful radio signals that flash from distant space for milliseconds and then disappear. »

Ecstasy Was Just Labelled a 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD by The FDA

Authored by sciencealert.com

The goal of these trials is to determine how effectively the drug can be used to treat those suffering from PTSD.

The trials will include 200 to 300 participants, and the first trial will begin to accept subjects in 2018.

Previous MAPS trials exploring how well MDMA could treat PTSD have yielded favourable results, contributing to the FDA's aforementioned decision. »

A Stolen Human Skeleton Found in 2012 Might Be Americas' Oldest

Authored by inverse.com

Stinnesbeck and his team drew this conclusion from that prehistoric pelvis, discovered near the Chan Hol cave near Tulum, Mexico.

This cave is part of a vast system of underwater carbonate bedrock caves that are alternately filled with salt and fresh water, and human remains have been found there before.

“Our dates support this new interpretation,” says Stinnesbeck, “which was a no-go until a few years ago.”. »