Neuroscience
How climate change could be affecting your brain
A new element of the catastrophic impacts of climate change is emerging—how global warming is impacting the human brain.
Nov 13, 2023
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Vaccination
US approves first vaccine against chikungunya virus
US health authorities on Thursday approved the world's first vaccine for chikungunya, a virus spread by infected mosquitoes that the Food and Drug Administration called "an emerging global health threat."
Nov 10, 2023
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Medications
The rise and fall of antibiotics. What would a post-antibiotic world look like?
These days, we don't think much about being able to access a course of antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn't always the case—antibiotics have been available for less than a century.
Nov 8, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Risk of dying in hospital from respiratory causes is higher in the summer than in the winter, study finds
Global warming caused by climate change could exacerbate the burden of inpatient mortality from respiratory diseases during the warm season. This is the main conclusion of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global ...
Nov 7, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study: Animal-to-human diseases could kill 12 times as much by 2050
Certain diseases transmitted from animals to humans could kill 12 times as many people in 2050 than they did in 2020, researchers have claimed.
Nov 4, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers explain how petrochemicals fuel cancer risks
A researcher with Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and collaborators have penned a commentary highlighting how petrochemicals are a major contributor to cancer risks, ...
Nov 2, 2023
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HIV & AIDS
50-year forecast offers hope for HIV and cancer patients and predicts climate change to increasingly set agenda
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we think about health and revealed significant flaws within our health care systems. It has also raised questions about the role of technology, as well as ethical concerns about the ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Health
Is it a cold, flu or hay fever? How to tell symptoms apart, and boost your immune system
As the crisp autumn air sets in and leaves turn to shades of red and gold, many of us eagerly anticipate the seasonal delights that come with the autumn and winter months. But, for some, these seasons also bring an unwelcome ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Health
Cigarette style warning labels could reduce people's meat consumption
Cigarette-style graphic warning labels could reduce people's meat consumption, according to new research.
Oct 31, 2023
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Health
Waste surveillance can help combat climate-aggravated diseases
Traditional disease-monitoring systems are ill-equipped to handle the recent unprecedented outbreaks of climate-aggravated diseases. In a viewpoint article published in Science Translational Medicine, SFI's Samuel Scarpino ...
Oct 31, 2023
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