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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 outcomes in people with cystic fibrosis, was reported at the congress.

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 reported cases of tuberculosis does not represent a genuine drop in the disease burden.

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 live with nature.

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 region's ecology. Climate effects are endangering the ability of forests to mitigate adverse atmospheric changes, especially in the Amazon and North Ameri...