Genetics
Using genomics to track malaria in the US
For the first time in 20 years, locally transmitted cases of malaria have been reported in the U.S.
Dec 20, 2023
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News tagged with global climate change
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Climate change risks triggering a spike in infectious disease outbreaks: three reasons why
Climate change is our planet's most immediate existential threat, and will likely only worsen for the foreseeable future.
Dec 13, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
As dengue expands beyond the global 'dengue belt,' scientists dispel conventional wisdom about the disease
Unknowns, dangers and surprises persist about dengue viral infection and now an assumption once accepted as conventional wisdom about immunity to the mosquito-borne disease may be incorrect.
Health
Rising heat stress poses grave occupational health risks for workers, study finds
As global temperatures continue to soar due to anthropogenic climate change, a new study has highlighted the alarming consequences of heat stress on outdoor workers. The research, published in Kidney International Reports, ...
Nov 27, 2023
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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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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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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
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New study provides 'genetic fingerprint' indicating disease spread by sand flies may be on the rise in US
Scientists have new evidence that a tropical disease once seen almost exclusively in returning travelers is now being detected in the United States in people with no international travel history—and caused by a Leishmania ...
Oct 19, 2023
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Pediatrics
Why mothers and babies will suffer more as Africa grows hotter
As Africa gets hotter, mothers and babies are most at risk. Why is this and what can be done about it? Matthew Chersich, a specialist in climate change and maternal health, explains the reasons to health editor Nadine Dreyer.
Sep 10, 2023
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