Zuleida greets and speaks with municipal health workers and volunteers who are inspecting the Tabajaras favela for standing water where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes can breed, in an effort to stop…
Category: Humans
Inequities in HIV testing, diagnosis and care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Dispartities in HIV testing for people with intellectual disabilities is becoming a common challenge. Credit: T.G. James, Department of Family Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S. People with…
Ancient megalithic plaza found in the Andes
Archaeologists from the University of Wyoming (UW) have uncovered a megalithic plaza in the Cajamarca Basin of northern Peru. According to the researchers, the plaza dates from around 4,750 years…
The Impact of Borderline Personality Disorder on Jealousy and Relationship Retention
Summary: Individuals with borderline personality (BPD) features are more prone to suspicious jealousy, which significantly influences their romantic relationships. This suspiciousness leads to a range of mate retention behaviors, from…
Mystery of Bronze Age shipwreck solved
A shipwreck is generally defined as a sunken or damaged ship, however, sometimes the term can also be applied to the sunken remains of a ship’s cargo. This is the…
Why We Learn Better From People We Like
Summary: Our brains favor learning from individuals we like over those we dislike, a phenomenon crucial for memory integration. Through experiments involving everyday objects, the study demonstrated that our ability…
Emotional Processing Influenced by Culture and Language
Summary: Recent research reveals that recognizing emotions through body language is not purely instinctual but culturally learned. Scientists in the US discovered that emotion category words like ‘disgust’ influence how…
Researchers identify potential ‘missing link’ for why South Asians have higher rates of heart disease
Credit: Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2023.12.012 A new study led by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital has found that South Asians with either heart disease…
Israeli siege has placed Gazans at risk of starvation − prewar policies made them vulnerable in the first place
The stories of hunger emerging from war-ravaged Gaza are stark: People resorting to grinding barely edible cattle feed to make flour; desperate residents eating grass; reports of cats being hunted…
Nitazenes are a powerful class of street drugs emerging across the US
Two deaths in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2023 are the latest in the U.S. to be blamed on the powerful class of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Most health systems cannot…
