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The protein-enriched oral nutritional supplement helped maintain lean body mass and prevent fat gain in middle-aged and elderly women. This suggests its potential role in preventing frailty and musculoskeletal disorders associated with female aging.

This article outlines a theory of goodness, coupled with some of its practical implications for impact-making, governance and lives more generally. The theory proposes that goodness consists of positive feelings and whatever promotes them, such as the joy of a meaningful conversation or the satisfaction of eating food, for instance. Although it is a version of ethical hedonism, the theory is also called welfarism since it allocates a central role to affect and since affect is central to some prevalent measures of 'subjective wellbeing'.

Drivers of health disparities in rheumatology are numerous and complex, existing within and between populations. These impact access to advanced therapies, specialized services, and core components of care.

The authors highlight how the Indigenous view of health has always understood the interconnects among people, animals and the environment, which is the foundation of what is now a western concept called “One Health”. They call for Indigenous understandings of the connection to be embedded into One Health approaches. They propose that future studies utilise local Indigenous seasonal calendars, which are often based on environmental cues, to help understand the seasonal effects of zoonoses.