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Over the weekend, Argentinian health officials announced that Legionella was isolated from samples from four people infected in an unexplained cluster of bilateral pneumonia at a hospital that triggered fears of a possible outbreak of a new pathogen.

Over recent decades, more and more adults under the age of 50 are developing cancer. A study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital reveals that the incidence of early onset cancers (those diagnosed before age 50), including cancers of the breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver, and pancreas among others, has dramatically increased around the world, with this drastic rise beginning around 1990. In an effort to understand why many more younger individuals are being diagnosed with cancer, scientists conducted extensive analyses of available data in the literature and online, including information on early life exposures that might have contributed to this trend. Results are published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology.

Significant indirect healthcare costs are related to uncontrolled asthma, including productivity loss. Days with short-acting beta-agonist (SABA) use is associated with symptom-related disruptions at work, home, and school. Digital self-management platforms may support fewer days with SABA medication use and may reduce symptom-related disruptions.

In Alzheimer’s disease (AD), cerebral iron accumulation colocalizes with the pathological proteins amyloid-β (Aβ) and tau. Furthermore, tau-induced cortical thinning is associated with cognitive decline. In this study, quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) was used to investigate the whole-brain distribution pattern of cortical iron deposition and its relationships with cognition and cortical thickness in AD.

Hermits Peak is one of Alex Huffman’s favorite hikes in the world. He grew up and spends time in the mountains outside of Las Vegas in northern New Mexico. His family has had a cabin in nearby Gallinas Canyon since before he was born. “Some of my earliest memories are there,” he said. “That’s where I caught my first fish.”

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to detect COVID-19 infection in people’s voices by means of a mobile phone app, according to research to be presented on Monday at the European Respiratory Society International Congress in Barcelona, Spain [1].

Social restrictions set due to COVID-19 interrupted the circulation of influenza in March 2020 in Finland and globally.1-3 Finland had lockdown from March 2020 to May 2020 and since then, Finland has had regional restrictions and traveling restrictions based on the COVID-19 incidences. These actions prevented the influenza season 2020–2021 completely, and only few cases were detected in Finland and Northern Europe.4, 5

Asthma and COPD are defined as different disease entities, but in practice patients often show features of both diseases making it challenging for primary care clinicians to establish a correct diagnosis.

Worldwide, about 10.5 million children may have lost parents or caregivers to COVID-19 and 7.5 million were orphaned, according to new study that estimated excess mortality using World Health Organization (WHO) data.

Yellow fever is endemic in the WHO African Region and was among the top five most frequently reported events in the region in 2019 and 2020. Twenty-seven countries in Africa have been classified as high-risk by the Eliminate Yellow fever Epidemics (EYE) global strategy. From 1 January 2021 to 26 August 2022, a total of 12 countries in the region have reported 184 confirmed cases and 274 probable cases, including 21 deaths, reflecting ongoing complex viral transmission.