A tsetse fly (Glossina sp) in the Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania.
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New research on what attracts blood-feasting flies to blue objects could help minimise the impacts of those insects on people and animals.
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In low-income countries, tobacco use is often associated with lower income and less education. These users can’t afford to pay for counselling and medication.
One-third of the world’s grey seals now live the UK’s waters.
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Grey seals are now common in the UK – but their status remains fragile.
A baby chimpanzee enjoys his food.
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Most of us have heard of the dangers of deforestation but there are other more subtle ways that human beings can endanger monkeys, apes and lemurs.
Key to preventing cholera is a good supply of water.
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Cholera has persisted longer in Africa largely due to worsening hygiene and sanitation situations in urban areas.
Even though chronic pain is recognized by scientists as a disease in its own right, it remains largely under-recognized, under-diagnosed and, above all, subject to many prejudices.
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Although chronic pain is recognized by scientists as a disease in its own right, it remains largely under-recognized, under-diagnosed and, above all, associated with numerous prejudices.
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Marginalised or minority groups seem to suffer the most from heat-related deaths and disease.
Some non-stick pans may contain PFAS.
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So-called ‘forever chemicals’ are in many of the everyday products we use.
Manufacturing a treatment this way would mean patients could get their treatment faster.
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‘Point-of-care manufacture’ of advanced therapies is already being used in hospitals in the UK, Spain, Switzerland and the US.
When a person loses a loved one to COVID-19, the mental health effects can be severe.
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COVID-19 deaths tend to be more unexpected and traumatic than other types of deaths. A sociologist explains the mental health burdens facing the millions who’ve lost a relative to the coronavirus.
Everyone had a different experience of the pandemic.
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If you found the COVID pandemic affected you differently to your friends, it could be down to your DNA.
It is possible to grow cells from a skin sample in a Petri dish and transform them into neurons in about a month.
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Cell cultures have shown promise in representing diseases. The Petri dish is not as different from a sick person as one might think.
The headstone of Father Damien, a Catholic saint who was canonized in 2009.
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Father Damien’s legacy has inspired health providers and humanitarians for over a century.
Confession, circa 1460/1470. Artist unknown.
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Churches’ struggles to respond to the plague and constant warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries helped shape the kinds of Christianity in the world today.
Pregnant people are at significantly greater risk from COVID-19 than from the vaccine.
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A robust body of research finds that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 during pregnancy is safe and effective – and the best way to protect both mother and child from the risks of COVID-19.
It’s important to do resistance training alongside other types of exercise.
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The study found that short amounts of weekly resistance exercise lowered risk of premature death from many different diseases by around 10-20%.
The benefits of extra virgin olive oil might just make it worth the extra cost.
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Extra virgin olive oil contains polyphenols, which studies have linked to a range of different health benefits.
Targeting the biological causes of ageing could be one method for better treating multimorbidity.
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Ageing is the single biggest risk factor for developing multimorbidity.
Rift Valley Fever virus, 3D illustration.
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Manufacturing is just one part of the vaccine ecosystem. It’s the health system that delivers vaccines and people must be willing to take them.
Modern vampires like Dracula may be dashing, but they certainly weren’t in the original vampire myths.
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The past century’s vampires have often been a bit dashing, even romantic. That’s not how the myth started out.