By Liao Yue, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington
Tracking glucose numbers in real time is an increasingly popular wellness trend, but monitoring a constant stream of data can lead to confusion and needless anxiety.
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By Katrine L. Wallace, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois Chicago
The US military helped create the first flu vaccine to keep service members in action – and the logic for requiring vaccination has not changed.
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By Jonathan S. Weissman, Principal Lecturer of Cybersecurity, Rochester Institute of Technology
You can change a stolen password or credit card, but you can’t reset your face when your biometric data is breached.
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By Gabriele Neher, Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
The first modern mention of the Flemish painter Michaelina Wautier (1614–1689) introduces an artist who defies expectation. Referring to her monumental Triumph of Bacchus (1655–59), Gustav Glück, the first art historian to serve as curator of Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum, wrote in 1903 that “even in an age of female emancipation, one would hardly wish to ascribe this picture, which shows a highly vigorous, almost coarse conception, to a woman’s hand”.
And thereby hangs the achievement of Wautier: she may have been able to paint “like a man”, but in most of her works, she does not…
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By Tiphaine Blanchard, enseignante en gériatrie et nutrition vétérinaire, École Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse; Inrae
An original new study on pet ownership assesses how attached people are to their cats and dogs in order to understand the emotional connection and the associated health benefits at all ages.
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By Simon Kolstoe, Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
The chief executive of the UK Biobank, one of the world’s largest biomedical databases, recently wrote to over 500,000 participants telling them that some of their data had been made available for sale online through a Chinese website. This wasn’t a data breach or hack, but rather researchers who had legitimately accessed the data trying to sell it.
Although it was stated that participants…
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By François Roger, Directeur régional Asie du Sud-Est, vétérinaire et épidémiologiste, Cirad
Marie-Marie Olive, Chercheuse en épidémiologie, Cirad
In the wake of the WHO’s One Health summit, a new atlas explores the interdependency between environmental, health and food security issues, and strategies for supporting sustainability and the welfare of all life forms.
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By Ed Hutchinson, Professor, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow
The world is full of animal viruses, and we’re pretty sure that one of them will cause the next pandemic. To prevent pandemics, we need to predict which of the vast number of animal viruses are most likely to infect humans. A new study, published in Nature, sets out an elegant and powerful way for scientists to sift through the enormous diversity of animal viruses without risking being infected by them in the process.
In this study, a team of researchers in the UK used cutting-edge lab techniques to track…
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By Adam Brentnall, Reader in Biostatistics, Queen Mary University of London
Peter Sasieni, Professor of Biostatistics and Cancer Epidemiology, Queen Mary University of London
Rhian Gabe, Professor of Biostatistics and Clinical Trials, Queen Mary University of London
Over the past decade, millions of men without symptoms of prostate cancer have voluntarily undergone a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test in the UK to find out if they might have prostate cancer.
While research has shown that PSA screening in men aged 50-69 years can reduce…
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By Samina Akhtar, PhD candidate in Population and Public Health and a Fogarty Fellow, Aga Khan University
Long hours at a desk can raise the risk of diabetes, heart disease and poor concentration, even in people who exercise regularly.
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