The World Health Organization announced multiple commitments to drive change for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls in all their diversity at the Generation Equality Forum, held last week in Paris. The ...
In recent years, immunotherapy has revolutionised the field of cancer treatment. However, inflammatory reactions in healthy tissues frequently trigger side effects that can be serious and lead to the permanent discontinuation of treatment. This toxicity ...
Legend has it that Marie Antoinette’s hair turned grey overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate — hair that has already grown out of the follicle does not change colour ...
One of the constants in our response to the COVID-19 pandemic is that we are continuously learning and focusing our efforts to increase protection levels, particularly for the most vulnerable people in our community. A ...
Regularly eating a Southern-style diet may increase the risk of sudden cardiac death, while routinely consuming a Mediterranean diet may reduce that risk, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart ...
Even the mundane act of swallowing requires a well-coordinated dance of more than 30 oral muscles. The loss of function of even one of these, due to disease or injury, can be extremely debilitating. For ...
A University of Arkansas researcher and international colleagues found that employed individuals, on average, are 35.3% more likely to be infected with the flu virus. The findings confirm a long-held assumption about one prevalent way ...
Following a 70-year effort, China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO – a notable feat for a country that reported 30 million cases of the disease annually in the 1940s. “Today we congratulate ...
New data shows that less than one in five Australians living under disability care are vaccinated against COVID-19 more than four months since the rollout of the vaccine started. Rather than wait for commonwealth in-reach ...