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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By Amnesty International
One year on from the deadly US air strike on a Huthi-run migrant detention centre in Sa’ada, north-western Yemen, there has been no discernible progress towards justice and reparation, and survivors are still struggling with severe physical and psychological trauma, Amnesty International said today. The organization had called for the 28 April 2025 strike by US forces, which killed and injured dozens of African migrants to be investigated as a war crime, and this month spoke once again to six […] The post Yemen: One year on, impunity for detention centre strike exposes US failures on accountability…
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By Gediminas Lipnickas, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Adelaide University
Business is booming for fakes, worth at least US$467 billion a year worldwide. But some fake products can pose serious health risks to unsuspecting buyers.
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By Lisa Farrell, Professor of Economics (Health Economist), RMIT University
Meg Elkins, Associate Professor in Economics, RMIT University
A better deal on your private health insurance may be just a phone call away. What have you got to lose?
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Meghan Quinn will move from secretary of the Industry Department to head the high-profile Defence Department – the first woman to hold that post.
She follows Greg Moriarty, who has become Australia’s ambassador to the United States.
Quinn will oversee the government’s recently announced 2026 National Defence Strategy, which promises an extra $14 billion over four years and an extra $53 billion over a decade.…
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