We tend to just think of viruses in terms of their damaging impacts on human health and lives. But viruses can also be used to benefit human health, agriculture and the environment.
Daoism, which emphasizes harmony with nature, can inform individuals on their relationship with the environment.
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A scholar of Daoist rituals explains how the indigenous tradition of China understands the human body as being part of the larger cosmos.
More emergency medicine residencies have gone unfilled in the past two years, especially in South Florida, Detroit and Philadelphia.
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A new study finds more emergency medicine residencies are available, but hundreds of the positions are going unfilled.
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is classified as a priority 1 critical pathogen by the World Health Organization.
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Don’t believe the hype about products claiming they can help you live longer. Here are five lifestyle changes to prioritise instead.
The experimental methods available today allow us to break the brain down into its elementary components in order to understand its functions and dysfunctions.
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Montréal is home to one of the world’s largest brain banks, the Douglas-Bell Canada Brain Bank, where discoveries about different neurological and psychiatric diseases are made.
In addition to saving costs for individuals and our health-care system, facilitating access to dental care would enhance the population’s oral health and potentially help in managing chronic diseases.
Fermented foods can be a good source of probiotics.
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Probiotics are great for your gut, but which sources contain the most beneficial bacteria? Newly developed sensors are helping scientists figure it out.
The benefits of creative writing are particularly important in countries where there’s a need to build a caring society and there are limited resources.
Pregnancy sickness is believed to affect 7 in 10 women.
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New research provides evidence for the first time that the primary chemical in Roundup is reaching people in nearby homes, and it isn’t just from the food they eat.
Ahead of Thursday’s release of the review into NDIS, the states have agreed to provide more and expanded services for people with disability in exchange for an extension of the GST top-up.
National Cabinet is meeting today to discuss hospital funding, and the interconnected issues of NDIS reform and GST allocation. But how are hospitals actually funded? And what’s GST got to do with it?
Pakistan experienced severe floods in 2022.
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The effects of climate change on health are getting more political traction. But there’s still more to do, particularly as the health harms of climate change are only getting more serious.
Buvidal, or long-acting injectable buprenorphine, was approved for use in the UK in 2019.
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The longest-running study of its kind reviewed death records in the path of pollution from coal-fired power plants. The numbers are staggering − but also falling fast as US coal plants close.
Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne