A New Alliance for a Healthier World launched
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), GAIN and Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World launch new online dashboard to inform better food policy Rome/Baltimore/Geneva, June 1,...
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Natural mosquito fungus ‘could block spread of malaria’
By Fiona Broom A fungus that lives in malaria-carrying mosquitoes could boost global efforts to control the disease, which kills about half a million people —...
Repurposing drugs for COVID-19 a more rapid alternative to a vaccine, say researchers
Repurposing existing medicines focused on known drug targets is likely to offer a more rapid hope of tackling COVID-19 than developing and manufacturing a vaccine, argue an international team of scientists in the British Journal of Pharmacology.
Breast Tumors backfire on chemotherapy
Researchers at EPFL have discovered that chemotherapy-treated mammary tumors produce small vesicles that may help them spread to other organs. The study is published in Nature Cell...
You Don’t Deserve Loneliness: Staying Connected to Fight It
Positive relationships with friends and family help us thrive. Without social connections, it’s easy to feel lonely or isolated. Many of us have been spending more...
Simple ‘sniff test’ reliably predicts recovery of severely brain-injured patients
The ability to detect smells predicts recovery and long-term survival in patients who have suffered severe brain injury, a new study has found. A simple, inexpensive...