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Vultures are in trouble. Worldwide, 73 percent of vulture species are endangered or near threatened with extinction; only six of 22 species aren’t threatened. The problem is particularly bad in Africa and on the Indian subcontinent, where the birds are mostly killed by poisons and a veterinary anti-inflammatory drug used on livestock, finds a new study in the journal Biological Conservation by Evan Buechley and Çağan Şekercioğlu of the University of Utah.
The prospect of losing the unattractive, bald-headed carrion-eaters may not seem alarming for humans, but it is.
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Snakebites kill up to 94,000 people worldwide every year, with the highest number of deaths in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
The main obstacle to saving lives is the global availability of antivenom.
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For many people in Zambia with health queries, sending a text message is the best way to get it answered. U-report, a free SMS-based service set up by UNICEF and run by volunteers, receives many thousands of questions a month, many specifically about HIV and AIDS.
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An algorithm for spotting malaria under the microscope could bring accurate, rapid diagnosis to understaffed areas.
For all our efforts to control malaria, diagnosing it in many parts of the world still requires counting malaria parasites under the microscope on a glass slide smeared with blood. Now an artificial intelligence program can do it more reliably than most humans.
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How stressed is your doctor? A large-scale test of wearable stress monitors, announced this week, is set to provide some answers. ” “It’s time for us as doctors to recognise that we’re human first, and doctors second.”
Bacteriophages (yellow) attack specific bacteria.
Set your phages to stun. Researchers have devised a way to engineer a class of bacteria-destroying viruses to make them more clinically useful. The phage viruses could eventually be used to kill disease-causing bacteria in the body while leaving good bacteria unharmed.