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May 7, 2025 M. Paloma Reche Sainz, _Universidad CEU San Pablo_; Rubén Agudo Torres, _Universidad CEU San Pablo_, and Sergio Rius Rocabert, _Universidad CEU San Pablo_ Antibiotic resistance

has played a key role in the evolution and survival of bacteria. May 6, 2025 Annettee Nakimuli, _Makerere University_ Research indicates that pre-eclampsia has a genetic basis. African women

are at greater risk than other population groups. March 26, 2025 Adam Taylor, _Lancaster University_ From ‘hot potato voice’ to ‘milky leg syndrome’, hundreds of medical conditions are

named after food. March 18, 2025 Ipek Kurtböke, _University of the Sunshine Coast_ Sea foam is a health hazard. These bacterial smoothies can contain more harmful pathogens than a sewage

treatment plant – and you wouldn’t go swimming in sewage. March 17, 2025 Pierre Micheletti, _Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)_ The Trump administration’s sudden freeze of funding for USAID is

an immediate disaster, but the economic model for international solidarity has been outdated for a long time. March 16, 2025 Hassan Vally, _Deakin University_ Is our lifespan primarily

dictated by our genetics, or do our behaviour and environment play the more important role? February 21, 2025 Bill Sullivan, _Indiana University_ Mosquitoes cause around a million deaths per

year. So, scientists are coming up with genetic engineering techniques that could lower their numbers. February 12, 2025 Julee McDonagh, _University of Wollongong_ and Caleb Ferguson,

_University of Wollongong_ Not everyone who ages will necessarily become frail. Here’s the distinction. January 31, 2025 Dhritiraj Sengupta, _Plymouth Marine Laboratory_ Satellite-derived

Earth observation data helps researchers unlock new insights into monitoring both environmental and human health. January 16, 2025 Kimberly Dodd, _Michigan State University_ Officials have

confirmed eight new outbreaks in Michigan poultry flocks since mid-December. November 15, 2024 Michael Head, _University of Southampton_ and Jessica Boxall, _University of Southampton_

Everyone working in health needs to prepare for and be equipped to respond to the health consequences of the climate crisis. September 2, 2024 Sarah Schiffling, _Hanken School of Economics_

and Liz Breen, _University of Bradford_ Fighting in parts of Gaza has paused to allow young children to be vaccinated against polio. July 18, 2024 Chris Wilson, _University of Oxford_;

Reuben Nowell, _University of Stirling_, and Tim Barraclough, _University of Oxford_ Rotifers are microscopic animals and their populations are entirely female. July 2, 2024 Caroline Sirois,

_Université Laval_ In the majority of cases, medications help patients. But even when treatment of individual illnesses is effective, treatment as a whole can become problematic. June 19,

2024 Nitish Boodhoo, _University of Guelph_ and Shayan Sharif, _University of Guelph_ H5N1 is the latest evidence that climate change is altering how viruses spread and evolve. It is

essential that global public health officials take these dynamics into account. June 5, 2024 Garry Jennings, _University of Sydney_ In 2022 the top five conditions involved in deaths in

Australia were coronary heart disease, dementia, high blood pressure, cerebrovascular disease (such as a stroke) and diabetes. May 22, 2024 Jack Marley, _The Conversation_ How diseases will

change as Earth overheats. May 7, 2024 Ron Barrett, _Macalester College_ Human factors − such as how people produce food and how they organize themselves and live together − influence

disease outbreaks. March 15, 2024 Conor Meehan, _Nottingham Trent University_ R intestinalis is one of the gut’s primary producers of butyrate – a source of energy for many of the gut’s

cells. March 13, 2024 Robert A. Schwartz, _Rutgers University_ People often think of leprosy as a bygone disease, relevant primarily in biblical times. But in fact, it is still present in

more than 120 countries, and the US is seeing an uptick in cases.