A new University of Iowa study challenges the idea that grey matter (the neurons that form the cerebral cortex) is more important than white matter
Quality care is a critical issue for mothers and newborn health. More women globally give birth in health facilities than ever before, but this has
Fully investing in midwives by 2035 would avert roughly two-thirds of maternal, newborn deaths and stillbirths, saving 4.3 million lives per year. Millions of lives
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Federal Republic of Germany will establish a new global hub for pandemic and epidemic intelligence, data, surveillance and
WHO’s latest global survey on the implementation of national infection prevention and control programmes highlights the urgent need to reduce inequalities in the availability of
Yale researchers have shown that developmental abnormalities, including those that lead to pregnancy loss and autism, are controlled by the genetics of the fetus and
A Wyss Institute-led collaboration spanning four research labs and hundreds of miles has used the Institute’s human organ-on-a-chip (Organ Chip) technology to identify the antimalarial
In a paper published this week in Nature Machine Intelligence, the researchers introduced REDIAL-2020, an open-source online suite of computational models that will help scientists rapidly
The Food Safety Information Council warned that good handwashing rather than using hand sanitiser was more effective in reducing the risk of catching the gastro
Scientists are developing a completely new ‘brain stress test’ tool for evaluating the mental status of patients with Parkinson’s disease, the second most prevalent neurodegenerative
As the COVID-19 pandemic has progressed, it has become clear that many survivors — even those who had mild cases — continue to manage a
Researchers at SAHMRI and Flinders University have conducted the largest ever meta-analysis of wellbeing studies from around the world to answer the question, ‘What’s the