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A new study from the U.K. has described drug-resistant lung infections in vulnerable people, raising concern that treatment options may be increasingly limited.

A new partnership to improve the resilience and profitability of Australia’s food and agribusiness industries has been kickstarted with a $34.5 million Federal Government grant announced today.

The immunological mechanisms driving susceptibility to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a recent viral respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (Zhu et al., 2020), remain elusive.

A new study from McGill University finds higher incidence of lung cancer and brain tumors in people exposed to wildfires. The study, which tracks over 2 million Canadians over a period of 20 years, is the first to examine how proximity to forest fires may influence cancer risk.

In the first 3 to 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the proportion of overweight or obese children and teens from low-income families in Ohio climbed from 38% to 45%, suggests a study presented last week at the European Congress on Obesity in the Netherlands

With highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu now in Washington state and in Oregon poultry for the first time, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirms that the disease has now affected 34 US states and led to the demise of 37.55 million poultry.

Without a substantial infusion of cash from Congress, the United States could see another 100 million COVID-19 cases come fall, the White House warned today.

Patients with #IPF do not mount appreciable anti-spike antibody responses to two doses of #SARSCoV2 mRNA vaccine compared to the general population. National authorities should prioritise patients with IPF for booster doses.

Summary. A question on the mind of every business leader is: How do I re-populate my buildings and restart my business? As employees return to offices, the authors suggest a framework companies can deploy to keep people safe without crippling their businesses and our economy, as well as a series of health performance indicators to measure their progress.

Mucormycosis is a serious and potentially fatal fungal infection caused by a type of rare but opportunistic fungal pathogen called mucormycetes.