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Opportunities and challenges for people-centered multi-hazard early warning systems: Perspectives from the Global South

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iScience, Volume 28, Issue 5, 16 May 2025, 112353

This perspective highlights the challenges and opportunities of implementing people-centered multi-hazard early warning systems in the Global South, emphasizing the need for localized, inclusive approaches that address vulnerability and the complex interrelationships of hazards, to bridge the gap between global ambitions and operational realities.

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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS); Multi-stakeholder partnerships, Global

Climate change, migration, and health: Development of a case-based workshop for immigrant and refugee health professionals

Elsevier,

The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2025, 100447

The article describes the development of an interdisciplinary, case-based workshop to introduce refugee and immigrant health professionals to the ways in which climate change impacts the health of the communities they serve.

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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action

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Climate Action, North America

Treadmill exercise ameliorates hippocampal synaptic injury and recognition memory deficits by TREM2 in AD rat model

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Brain Research Bulletin, Volume 223, April 2025

This study demonstrated that physical exercise pretreatment improves recognition memory and enhances structural synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) rats, primarily through the activation of hippocampal TREM2. Blocking TREM2 diminished these neuroprotective effects, indicating that exercise mitigates synaptic injury and cognitive decline in AD via a TREM2-dependent mechanism.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

Workshop report: Everyday environmental heritage is key to unlocking the social dimensions of One Health

Elsevier,

iScience, Volume 28, Issue 5, 16 May 2025, 112358

This backstory highlights the importance of interdisciplinary and participatory approaches in advancing the One Health concept, using lessons from an international workshop in Lao PDR to address existing knowledge gaps and improve global health security strategies.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS); Multi-stakeholder partnerships; Health and wellbeing, Asia

Discovery of novel butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors for treating Alzheimer's disease

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Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, Volume 15, April 2025

The article describes the discovery and development of compound 8e, a selective and reversible butyrylcholinesterase (BuChE) inhibitor, as a potential therapeutic agent for treating Alzheimer's disease (AD). Compound 8e exhibited favorable blood-brain barrier permeability, good drug-likeness properties, and pronounced neuroprotective efficacy in various AD models, including zebrafish, scopolamine-induced mice, and APP/PS1 transgenic mice.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Altered resting-state functional connectivity in individuals at risk for Alzheimer's disease: a longitudinal study

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International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 25, 1 April 2025

This study provides evidence of distinct alterations in resting-state functional connectivity in individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) and late-life depression (LLD), underscoring region-specific vulnerabilities that may contribute to cognitive decline and depressive symptomatology in older adults.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Europe

Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics identification of biomarkers for amyloid and tau PET stages

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Cell Reports Medicine, Volume 6, 15 April 2025

This study identifies two CSF proteomic panels that accurately stage Alzheimer’s pathology, outperform current biomarkers, and predict dementia progression over 10 years, enhancing diagnosis and clinical trial stratification.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing, Global

Coral restoration in a stressful environment: Disease, bleaching, and dysbiosis in Acropora aspera in Guam, Micronesia

Elsevier,

iScience, Volume 28, 18 April 2025

This study reports physiological stress in restored corals, highlighting the importance of coral microbiomes for conservation and restoration.
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SDG:

Goal 14: Life below water; Goal 13: Climate action

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Science; Oceans & Seas, Oceania

Social Determinants and Quality of Life in Food Allergy Management and Treatment

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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, Volume 13, April 2025

Foods are essential for life, but foods can be life-threatening for people with food allergy. This collection of articles from the April 2025 issue of JACI: In Practice provides up to date information on many important aspects of food allergy
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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing, Global

The Role of IgE Sensitization in Acute FPIES: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, Volume 13, April 2025

Foods are essential for life, but foods can be life-threatening for people with food allergy. This collection of articles from the April 2025 issue of JACI: In Practice provides up to date information on many important aspects of food allergy
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Health and wellbeing, Global

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