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<p>A new research review&nbsp;to be given at a pre-congress day for this year&rsquo;s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2024, Barcelona, 27-30 April) will look at improving preventive measures to stop surgical infections. It will also ask why we are doing what we are doing, especially when some interventions lack quality evidence or in fact in some cases any evidence to back them. The presentation will be given by Professor Hilary Humphreys, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Ireland &ndash; who will spell out the...

A family in Turkey was found to walk on all fours, a trait never before reported in modern humans, and scientists are exploring the link between it and the theory of human evolution

A family living in Turkey has fascinated anthropologists as they have been described as the missing link between apes and man as they walk on all fours.

WASHINGTON (NYTIMES) - The day after New Year's Day, Mr John Reichert of Boulder, Colorado, had a heated argument with his 14-year-old son, James. "I've failed you as a father," he told the boy despairingly. During the long months of lockdowns and shuttered schools, Mr Reichert, like many parents, overlooked the vastly increasing time that his son was spending on video games and social media. Now, James, who used to focus his free time on mountain biking and playing basketball, devotes nearly all of his leisure hours - about 40 a week - to Xbox and his phone. During their argument, he pleaded...