Changes to the female brain during menopause, along with social and cultural factors, might affect disease risk _ NATURE MEDICINE
Tag: health
Doctors prepare for the “enormous health consequences” of climate change
Students push for medical schools to teach the health impacts of extreme weather, as emissions from healthcare come under greater scrutiny_NATURE MEDICINE
Clinical trials assess a precision-medicine approach to cancer screening
Risk-based screening approaches can reduce over-detection, while self-testing and new diagnostics find early disease _NATURE MEDICINE
Researchers and regulators plan for a future with fewer lab animals
The US Food and Drug Administration has reduced requirements for preclinical animal testing, leading to a surge of interest in organoids, tissue chips and in silico testing _NATURE MEDICINE
Tuberculosis Is the Oldest Pandemic, and Poverty Makes It Continue
TB is preventable and curable, yet it afflicts 1/4 of the world’s population
_SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Health in the Amazon
Local communities protect the rainforest but lack adequate healthcare _NATURE
Amazon delivery
A rainforest expedition brings COVID-19 vaccines to some of Brazil’s most remote and vulnerable groups _SCIENCE
Dangerous heat, unequal consequences
How two neighborhoods shaped by racial segregation became hotspots for sickening heat _CPI, MOTHER JONES, THE ORLANDO SENTINEL, AZ CENTRAL
Deadly bacteria lurks in coastal waters as climate changes
_CPI, MOTHER JONES