Electrocuting mosquitoes: a new hope for monitoring dengue vectors?
The Mosquito Electrocuting Trap (MET) for collection of mosquito populations that transmit dengue virus was recently tested for the first time.… Read more »
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A Map for Drug Discovery
Benoit Coulombe and Marie-Soleil Gauthier of the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (Montréal, Canada), discuss the Rare Disease Cell Map, the Open… Read more »
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How can we sustain family carers’ capacity to care? What carers need and how technology can help provide it
Much of the work of caring for the growing population of older adults is done by family members who often find themselves in the… Read more »
Dual Deprivation for Rare Disease
This piece, our final runner-up entry in Findacure and Medics4RareDiseases' "Student Voice" contest, speaks to the need to… Read more »
Statistical Approach to Validate the Performance of Models for Predicting Mortality Risk Temperature in Portuguese Metropolitan Areas
In a paper published by Mónica Rodrigues, Paula Santana and Alfredo Rocha in Environmental Health, the authors present a solid… Read more »
Human Pancreas Organoids: A step closer to understanding biology & treating disease
Authors of this recent paper published in BMC Developmental Biology, present a new way of studying what goes on within the… Read more »
No Country for Healthcare Equity
The diagnosis and delivery of treatment for rare diseases can vary greatly between different populations or groups within the same… Read more »
What influences men to take part in weight loss programs?
Men tend not to take part in weight loss programs but few studies explore why this may be. In this blog post, the lead author of a… Read more »
Improving Rare Disease Recognition Via Medical Education
This piece, a runner-up entry in Findacure and Medics4RareDiseases' "Student Voice" contest, explores how current methods of… Read more »
Mapping travel time to health facilities allows countries to prepare for new outbreaks
We analyzed travel times to health care facilities for populations at risk for viral hemorrhagic fevers in 43 sub-Saharan African… Read more »