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Major advances in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of cystic fibrosis over the past 30 years have meant that the life expectancy for someone born today is around 50 years compared with 30 years in 1990, and a recent study presented at the 2022 North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC) predicts that, by 2040, more than 70% of people with cystic fibrosis in the USA will be adults. Even with the huge progress made already, an abundance of exciting research, aiming to further improve...

Influential cancer epidemiologist and administrator. He was born in Glasgow, UK, on June 8, 1951 and died in Lyon, France, on July 23, 2022 aged 71 years.

A new report by WHO has laid bare the worrying extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted efforts to combat tuberculosis. At the centre of the 2022 Global Tuberculosis Report are the statistics on case notifications. In 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, 7·1 million new cases of tuberculosis were reported worldwide. In 2020, this number dropped to 5·8 million, before recovering somewhat to 6·4 million in 2021. WHO is confident that the reduced number of reporte...

Lorenz Hofbauer grew up on a farm in southern Germany. “It was nothing like urban life; people get up early and there is a lot of hard physical labour, particularly around the harvest”, explained Hofbauer, who is now Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, and Geriatric Medicine at Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden, Germany). Some of his uncles and cousins still work their farms, growing hops, and brewing beer. “On the farm, you do not learn to...

If you are a regular reader of Nature or Science, you will have seen with growing alarm reports pointing to the accelerating collapse of some of the most important planetary systems underpinning human survival. The Antarctic ice-shelf has contracted by almost 2% since 1997; further loss and thinning could lead to substantial sea-level rises. Climate change is causing rapid acidification of the Arctic Ocean, risking long-lasting damage to the regions ecology. Climate effects are endangering the a...

Pioneering researcher in childhood asthma. He was born in Aarhus, Denmark, on Jan 24, 1955 and died in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sept 8, 2022 aged 67 years.

On Sept 28, 2022, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued a press release calling on all those eligible for influenza and COVID-19 booster vaccinations to ensure that they take up the offer. “Flu and COVID-19 are unpredictable but there are strong indications we could be facing the threat of widely circulating flu, lower levels of natural immunity due to less exposure over the last three winters and an increase in COVID-19 circulating with lots of variants that can evade the immune respon...

The book COVID and Custom in Rural South Africa: Culture, Healthcare and the State was born out of research commissioned by a government development agency in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tells the story of how marginalised communities in the rural periphery of South Africa experienced the constraints placed on their funerals and customary practices during one of the worlds longest and most restrictive lockdowns.

On Sept 29, 2022, the Africa Union Commission announced the New Public Health Order, calling on governments, multilateral organisations, philanthropic groups, the private sector, and civil society to support its full implementation. The African Commission is the secretariat of the Africa Union—an intergovernmental organisation representing all 55 African states. The New Public Health Order outlines five major health priorities and calls for greater investment in health institutions, health wor...

The FDA has authorised bivalent booster vaccines containing mRNA for the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 variant as well as B.1.1.529.4 (BA.4) and B.1.1.529.5 (BA.5), the latter being the most prevalent omicron subvariant circulating now.