Nick Nurmohamed and colleagues have raised critical concerns regarding the detection of risk factors and the use of preventive measures before the occurrence of myocardial infarctions (MI). They performed a retrospective cohort study examining U.S. patients with their first MI between 2017 and 2022. Their results are published in European Heart Journal.

New research has shown how boys being overweight in early childhood or having chickenpox or another infectious disease in infancy may increase their risk of having chronic disease in later life.

Scientists who have written in the CABI One Health journal say there is an urgent need for aflatoxin control strategies in Pakistan’s feed supply chain to improve animal health, productivity, food safety and exports of animal-based products.

If an intestinal inhabitant such as the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli) becomes resistant to many antibiotics, it can cause serious health problems if it enters the bloodstream. How can such potentially dangerous multi-resistant bacteria be effectively removed from the gut? Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI), in collaboration with researchers from Hannover Medical School (MHH), explored this question in their latest study. Their strategy: food competition. Out of more than 430 different E. coli strains isolated from stool samples of donors, they identified some that successfully displaced the multidrug-resistant strains. Their findings give the scientists hope that their approach could help slow the spread of multidrug-resistant intestinal bacteria and prevent dangerous infections in the future. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications and was supported financially by the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF).