While the importance of rescue breathing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (RB-CPR) in pediatrics has long been recognized, its implementation declined during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, its impact on the survival of pediatrics with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains unknown. Now, researchers from the Okayama University revealed that a decline in RB-CPR is associated with an increased death rate, highlighting the importance of rescue breathing in pediatrics and the need for better training and public awareness.

As zoonotic diseases like avian flu and COVID-19 continue to threaten both human and wildlife populations, a new study introduces an innovative framework for disease detection—using wild animals themselves as sentinels. By equipping wildlife with biologging devices that track movement and behavior in near-real-time, researchers can detect early signs of illness, monitor disease spread, and inform public health interventions before outbreaks reach crisis levels. The study outlines six key applications of this approach and calls for global collaboration across health, conservation, and environmental sectors to make biologging-based surveillance a central tool in the fight against future pandemics.

Researchers at the Salk Institute, UC San Diego, and Washington University have gathered novel details on undernourished children’s gut microbe populations in the largest study of its kind to-date, identifying dozens of new microbes to form an unprecedented database. They found that gut microbiome diversity and genome stability may be a powerful marker for whether children thrive or suffer. Their findings pave the way for diagnostic and preventative solutions for undernourished children around the globe, while also opening the opportunity for innovations across other public health crises from obesity to malaria to COVID-19.