In the Press

Climate change has been predicted to affect future air quality, with inevitable consequences for health. Quantifying the health effects of air pollution under a changing climate is crucial to provide evidence for actions to safeguard future populations.

Stroke is a major cause of death and disability. About 5.3 million people die every year from stroke worldwide with over 9 million people surviving at any one time after suffering a stroke.

Over the weekend, federal and state agriculture officials announced Colorado's first avian flu outbreak, continuing the westward expansion of detections in poultry and lifting the number of affected state to 26.

Introduction The new Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a highly contagious disease that was discovered near the end of 2019. COVID-19 has been conceptualized as a “gero-pandemic,” defined as a disease that has spread globally with heightened significance and negative consequences for older populations (Wister & Speechley, 2020). Older people are particularly vulnerable to the harmful health impacts of COVID-19, as well as social isolation and loneliness as a result of public health measures to reduce transmission of the disease (e.g., physical/social distancing measures, closure of community spaces).

Federal officials today reported Montana's first two highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu outbreaks, part of ongoing high-path avian flu activity affecting half of US states, as Indiana reported another commercial farm outbreak, its first in about a month.

Mechanical breathing motions have a fundamental function in lung development and disease, but little is known about how they contribute to host innate immunity. Here we use a human lung alveolus chip that experiences cyclic breathing-like deformations to investigate whether physical forces influence innate immune responses to viral infection.

Scientists have provided the strongest evidence yet that a protein that enables us to detect the sensation of cold may also be responsible for migraines. The findings appear in the journal Pain.

Of all essential workers in Sweden in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare professionals and immigrants were at highest risk for infection, hospitalization, and admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), according to a study late last week in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

The Ministry of Health (Minsa) , through the National Center for Epidemiology, Disease Prevention and Control (CDC Peru) issues an epidemiological alert on the occurrence of outbreaks of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in the country due to high risk extension of cases and increase in the magnitude of existing outbreaks.

Using a pulse oximeter to measure oxygen levels is no better than just regularly asking patients with COVID-19 if they are short of breath, according to new research at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. Pulse oximeters have often been applied because of concerns that patients might not notice their blood oxygen levels sliding dangerously.