Category: 6. Health

Original story from the University of Basel (Switzerland).

Study reveals that Pseudomonas bacteria’s ability to resist toxic attacks from bacterial competitors leaves them more sensitive to antibiotics.

Some bacteria use a kind of…

Photobacterium angustum has been found to be an effective vector for bacterial cancer immunotherapy in a preclinical study.

Researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Ishikawa Prefecture) have completed…

Overview

The Infection prevention and control and water, sanitation and Hygiene in health emergency readiness for
response operations capabilities checklist, herein referred to as the IPC & WASH HERO CAPE is a rapid self-
assessment tool…

A major review in Frontiers in Science highlights how tackling unsustainable food systems—reflected by our changing food environment—is urgent for both health and climate.

The paper reviews evidence that both obesity and…

By demonstrating that genetic influences can be coupled with gut microbe transmission, the work reveals a novel mechanism…

CHILDREN living with type 1 diabetes (T1D) are increasingly recognised as being at risk of neurocognitive impairment, potentially driven by chronic exposure to glycaemic extremes. While mean HbA1c has traditionally been used to assess…

More than 600 million people globally are at risk of contracting visceral leishmaniasis, with the vast majority (73% in 2022) of cases confined to East Africa. The disease remains poorly studied and relatively unknown outside of the impoverished…