A British cardiologist and former president of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has been judged by the ESC to have committed severe misconduct after a Danish TV documentary reported that he had been involved in drawing up guidelines for the use of the heart drug ivabradine (Corlanor, Procoralan) while profiting from lucrative contracts with the drug’s maker. 

When temperatures spike, emergency physicians expect to see more cases of dehydration and heat stroke. But a new Northwestern University study suggests that extreme heat also is linked to a much wider range of health problems seen in emergency departments and urgent care clinics, including skin conditions, multiple sclerosis and even injuries from traffic accidents. 

 

The findings could help emergency departments and health care systems better prepare for heat waves, which are becoming more prevalent with climate change. 

Following the Trump administration's announcement of changes to the public charge rule in 2018, a new study showed a 16.8-percent increase in HIV incidence among Hispanic populations living in antisanctuary counties, compared to baseline counties. The researchers also examined HIV incidence by race, and found no comparable increase among Black populations, which further indicates that post-2018 immigration policies and rhetoric uniquely affected Hispanic communities.

What if even the most ambitious conservation scenarios were not enough to halt the decline of common biodiversity in Europe? This is the question addressed by a new study co-funded by the BioAgora project, one that assesses how multiple drivers of environmental change (including climate change and land-use change) could affect bird and butterfly populations across Europe by 2050.

For the first time in Finland, population-level norm values have been established for estimating life expectancy adjusted for health-related functional capacity and productivity. The new study provides Finnish norm values for both everyday functioning and work ability, as well as for a newly developed measure, productivity-adjusted life expectancy.