These illustrations tell the story of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in a small tourist town in the Iowa Great Lakes region: my hometown of Okoboji. At first, during the first several month… [+7211 chars]
Secondary tuberculosis in lungs and close-up view of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria; 3D ... [+] illustration getty The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic goes well beyond the disease itself. It e… [+5404 chars]
CHICAGO/PARIS Organic and free-range chickens have been thrown into lockdown. Egg-laying hens that normally have access to the outdoors can no longer roam as freely or feel the sun on their beaks as… [+5018 chars]
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US prisons hold ten times as many people with severe mental illness as do state psychiatric hospitals.Credit: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters/Alamy Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental HealthThoma… [+6649 chars]
Just mentioning a ruptured Achilles tendon would make anyone wince. Tendon injuries are well known for their lengthy, difficult and often incomplete healing processes. Sudden or repetitive motion, ex… [+5666 chars]
In India in 2021, an estimated 504,000 people died from tuberculosis, or TB. Thats almost one per minute. More than a quarter of the estimated TB cases worldwide are in India. In 2018, the UN commi… [+6007 chars]
Placeholder while article actions load A healthy lifestyle may allow older people to live longer, with women adding three years and men six to their life expectancy, suggests research published in t… [+2101 chars]
The experimental study led by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) showed that air-circulating green walls installed inside offices modified microbiota affecting employees’ skin health and … [+4118 chars]
In a recent study published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers investigated whether pet dogs and cats in the households of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-… [+6459 chars]
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-associated death for women worldwide. While chemotherapy is the mainstream treatment for breast cancer, more than 50% of women undergoing chemotherapy wil… [+5077 chars]
Climate change will result in thousands of new viruses spread among animal species by 2070 and that's likely to increase the risk of emerging infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans, accor… [+3571 chars]
