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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Smriti Mallapaty
Summary: COVID vaccines for children as young as six months are now available in some countries. The effectiveness of these vaccines and the reasons behind the low vaccination rates among children are analyzed by Nature.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Katherine Bourzac
Summary: These four researchers are focusing on environmental inequities and working towards improving the health of their communities.
News Item
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Dyani Lewis
Summary: Early in the pandemic, the World Health Organization wrongly stated that SARS-CoV-2 was not transmitted through the air, causing confusion and raising questions about the future handling of pandemics.
Article
Immunology
Aniruddha Hazra, Joseph N. Cherabie
Summary: The multinational Mpox outbreak in 2022 has spread rapidly among men who have sex with men outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Close contact during sex and intimacy has been established as the main mode of human-to-human transmission. While sexual contact appears to be the primary means of spread, classifying Mpox as an STI is inaccurate and more effort should be focused on destigmatizing the disease and empowering at-risk communities.
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Krystal K. Rampalli, Christine E. Blake, Edward A. Frongillo, Joseph Montoya
Summary: The importance of what, how and why people eat has been recognized for human health, but it has recently been acknowledged as a crucial aspect of climate change and its impact on planetary health. The crises of global climate change and diet-related health issues are connected to food systems, food environments and consumer food choices. Understanding individual food choice is essential for transforming food systems to achieve both human and planetary health goals. There is limited knowledge about the relationship between food choice and climate change. To clarify potential courses of action, it is proposed that individual food choice affects climate change through three key mechanisms: influencing food supply and demand, impacting food waste, and serving as a symbolic expression of concern for human and planetary health. Understanding what, how and why people eat, as well as the mechanisms by which these choices affect climate change, is crucial for designing actions that protect both human and planetary health.
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Medicine, General & Internal
Monica Lakhanpaul, Susrita Roy, Lorna Benton, Marie Lall, Rajesh Khanna, Virendra Kumar Vijay, Sanjay Sharma, Logan Manikam, Neha Santwani, Hanimi Reddy, Hemant Chaturvedi, Shereen Allaham, Satya Prakash Pattanaik, Tol Singh, Pramod Pandya, Priyanka Dang, Priti Parikh
Summary: This interdisciplinary qualitative study explores the factors impacting feeding practices in rural India. The study focuses on health, education, engineering, and environment factors and aims to develop suitable interventions to improve infant and young child feeding practices. The research identifies local feeding practices, needs, and opportunities, and analyzes the qualitative data to design interventions tailored to the context. The study emphasizes the importance of mother's role, knowledge and attitude towards feeding, availability of services and resources, and the impact of agriculture and migration cycles on food availability.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ashli Blow
Summary: The sentence highlights that farmworkers and outdoor laborers are disproportionately affected by the disease.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jonathan O'Callaghan
Summary: Researchers warn that the safety concerns regarding RAAC concrete in UK schools may be just the beginning.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Corina Elena Niculaescu, Isabel Sassoon, Irma Cecilia Landa-Avila, Ozlem Colak, Gyuchan Thomas Jun, Panagiotis Balatsoukas
Summary: This study explored the public's willingness to use COVID-19 immunity certificates in different domestic scenarios in the UK. The results showed that participants were more willing to use immunity certificates prioritizing convenience when visiting their GP, but privacy was more important to them when dining in a restaurant or attending a performance in a theater. Personal beliefs about COVID-19 and immunity certificates were associated with variations in willingness to use them. Sociodemographic characteristics and lifestyle did not have a significant impact.
Editorial Material
Biodiversity Conservation
Pablo Ariel Martinez, Jose Maria Gutierrez, Miguel Angel Olalla-Tarraga, Talita Ferreira Amado
Summary: Projected global changes in the coming decades will impact human and livestock interactions with venomous animals. Understanding the distribution and impact of venomous animal species is crucial for preventing and treating envenomings and conserving biodiversity.
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nidhi Subbaraman
Summary: Evaluation of death certificates from national database reveals a grim situation for pregnant women.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Eric Bender
Summary: Traditional UV air purifiers need to be positioned away from people, but devices using shorter UV wavelengths can change this limitation.
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Anthony King
Summary: As e-cigarettes gain popularity, the lack of knowledge about the potential harm caused by nicotine raises concerns.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Grzegorz Jozef Nowicki, Maciej Polak, Barbara Slusarska, Karol Czernecki
Summary: Research shows that there is a complex relationship between dietary patterns and depressive symptoms, involving various biological and psychosocial mechanisms. Socioeconomic status is believed to be related to the occurrence of depressive symptoms, with those of lower status being more likely to experience persistent depression. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between socioeconomic and health factors and dietary assessment, as well as the relationship between dietary assessment and depressive symptoms.
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Raquel Mateos, Maria Desamparados Salvador, Giuseppe Fregapane, Luis Goya
Summary: Pistachio is a nutritious nut with low-fat content, high vegetable protein and dietary fiber, rich minerals, and vitamins C and E. It contains phytochemicals that have beneficial effects on various pathological conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, CVD, and cancer. Although less studied than other nuts, numerous studies have shown the positive impact of pistachio consumption on lipid and glucose homeostasis, endothelial function, oxidative stress, and inflammation.
