An article published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health notes that medical and healthcare professionals are in a unique position to speak to patients and the broader community about the impact of climate change on health and wellbeing.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a disproportionate toll on residents and staff at long-term care facilities. A review of data from 36 published studies published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society has linked certain characteristics of facilities to more COVID-19 cases and deaths.

In a recent study published in the European Journal of Cancer Care, investigators interviewed men affected by prostate cancer and their family members to gain a better understanding of their unmet information and communication needs.

Children with Down syndrome have a lower chance of survival from a particular high-risk form of leukemia (ALL) than children without the disability, new research shows. Researcher Naomi Michels in the Den Boer group: ‘We need to continue the search for targeted therapies and immunotherapy for these children.’

Rush researchers have shown that two lab-developed and nasally-delivered peptides helped slow the spread of alpha-synuclein in mice. “If these results can be replicated in patients, it would be a remarkable advance in the treatment of devastating neurological disorders,” says the lead author.