Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Study links specific gut bacteria to increased risk of severe malaria

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers have identified multiple species of bacteria that, when present in the gut, are linked to an increased risk of developing severe malaria in humans and mice. Their findings, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

The ego-consciousness of roosters evaluated in mirror test

Scrape, cluck, lay eggs—that's it? Anyone involved in chicken farming knows that the animals are capable of much more. Researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Bochum, together with the MSH Medical School Hamburg, have ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Research team maps antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Ghana

Some strains of heavily antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Ghana are not successful at spreading outside of the hospital, suggesting that control measures can be focused on clinical settings to help curb treatment-resistant ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Endemic malaria found in high, dry northwestern Kenya

Turkana County in northwestern Kenya was supposed to be the land that malaria forgot. An arid, windy region abutting Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia, its climate was thought to be too dry for the mosquitoes that harbor malaria-causing ...

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