Gerontology & Geriatrics

COVID-19 transformed road safety for older Australians, finds study

To examine the patterns of road crashes suffered by specific socially disadvantaged groups, researchers led by Dr. Ali Soltani from the Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute at Flinders University, evaluated crash ...

Health

Is the food that is good for us also good for the planet?

QUT ecologist Dr. Ayesha Tulloch, dietitian Professor Gallegos and UQ ecologist Dr. Rachel Oh analyzed 150 webpages from six world regions and found 83% of the 2,556 recommendations for food items that might "boost" immunity ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

A legal framework for vector-borne diseases and land use

Vector-borne diseases cause more than 700,000 deaths and affect hundreds of millions of people per year. These illnesses—caused by parasites, viruses, and bacteria transmitted by insects and animals—account for more than ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Stressed snails and slugs may spread rat lungworm through slime

Can humans become infected with the rat lungworm parasite from snail slime, if an infected snail or slug leaves slime on a lettuce leaf? That is the question University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers set out to answer ...

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