Climate change can have detrimental effects on child health and wellbeing.

RELX’s Global Head of Corporate Responsibility, Dr Márcia Balisciano, talks to Dr. Marianne Legato about gender-specific medicine.
What vaccines are currently available? How will they help? Are they safe? Is Covid-19 here to stay and will there be more pandemics? Just some of the questions answered by John McConnell, Editor, The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

In recognition of International Women’s Day (IWD), Elsevier, a global leader in information analytics specializing in science a

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Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are responsible for life-long production of blood and immune cells. HSC transplantation (HSCT) is the original cell therapy which can cure hematological disorders but also has the potential to treat other diseases if technical and safety barriers are overcome. It is hoped that HSCT can become safe enough to treat non-life-threatening disorders like allergy, psychiatric disorders, HIV, and aging.
Blood donation saves lives, and the communication between blood centers and donors plays a vital role in this. Smart apps are now considered an important communication tool, and could be best utilized in blood donation if they are designed to fit the users’ needs and preferences.
A thematic map displaying the interactions between perceptions and recommendations for parents’ and healthcare professionals involved in the newborn screening program for spinal muscular atrophy.
This Article supports SDG 3 by highlighting the benefits of equipping a wider (non-specialist) workforce to deal with the demands of population screening for rare diseases such as spinal muscular atrophy through education programmes and access to expert opinions.
Elsevier,

Encyclopedia of Virology (Fourth Edition), Volume 2, 2021, Pages 232-244

Overviews the Ebola virus, endemic in Central Africa and cause of severe hemorrhagic fevers. Although no licensed treatment is available to treat disease, vaccines have recently been licensed in Europe, the USA and elsewhere. The goal of SDG 3.3 is 3.3 the end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases.
This content supports the SDG Goal 3 by highlighting that management of chronic hepatitis B requires careful consideration of treatment indications given the requirement for long-term therapy in most patients. Options include nucleo(s)tide analogs (NA) and pegylated interferon alfa (PEG-IFN), both with their own advantages and limitations.
Elsevier,

Encyclopedia of Virology (Fourth Edition)

Volume 5, 2021, Pages 206-216

Fig. 1. Geographic distribution of HAV infections. HAV: colors represent different endemic patterns based on the age at which 50% of the population is HAV IgG positive [red: very highly endemic (< 5 years); orange: highly endemic (5–14 years); light green
This content supports the SDG Goal 3 and 6 by describing hepatitis A virus and hepatitis E virus, which are enterically transmitted and the most common cause of viral hepatitis worldwide.

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