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Elsevier,

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America, Volume 52, February 2026

Hurricanes and floods have been associated with flares in activity in patients with rheumatic diseases. Hurricanes and floods can negatively impact patients with rheumatic diseases by loss of access to health care providers and medications. Patients with rheumatic diseases should take protective steps to prepare for emergencies such as hurricanes and floods. An increase in the range of arthritogenic infections is expected with climate change. Contamination of water supplies by pesticides, pollutants, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and microplastics has been associated with an increased risk or activity of rheumatic diseases.
Elsevier,

Climate Change and Disability: A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable, Inclusive Future for All 2026, pp 45-48

This chapter highlights how climate change intensifies health challenges and resource access barriers for women with disabilities, aligning with SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) by emphasizing the need for inclusive decision-making to improve health outcomes and ensure equitable access to rights.

Elsevier,

Climate Change and Disability: A Collaborative Approach to a Sustainable, Inclusive Future for All 2026, pp 77-84

This chapter underscores how climate change amplifies health risks and systemic barriers for children, especially those with special health care needs, aligning with SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) by addressing health vulnerabilities, SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities) through calls for inclusive policies, and SDG 13 (Climate Action) by advocating disability-inclusive climate adaptation and resilience strategies.

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The 2025 winners of the RELX Environmental Challenge, which supports innovative solutions to advance SDG 6 Clean water and sanitation, have been announced.

This study presents AlzFormer, a novel deep learning framework utilizing spatiotemporal self-attention to classify Alzheimer’s disease (AD), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and cognitively normal (CN) individuals from structural MRI scans. By modeling MRI volumes as sequential slice-based inputs and fine-tuning a pre-trained TimeSformer model, AlzFormer achieved 94% accuracy and high class-wise F1-scores, while attention map analyses highlighted clinically relevant brain regions, demonstrating both robust performance and interpretability in multiclass AD diagnosis.
This article provides a comprehensive review of the use of graphene-based biosensing platforms for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease. It is found that graphene-based biosensors can detect Alzheimer's disease biomarkers at femtomolar concentrations, enabling early diagnosis before symptom onset. These sensors can also identify multiple biomarkers simultaneously in accessible biofluids like blood, saliva, and urine, enabling less invasive testing.
Report on a new smart delivery system designed to target and treat Alzheimer's disease more effectively, aiming to overcome the challenges of current treatments and offering a promising way to fight Alzheimer's more accurately and safely.
Elsevier, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, Volume 13, October 2025
Pressurized metered-dose inhalers contribute substantially to the health care sector's carbon footprint due to hydrofluorocarbon propellants, whereas dry powder inhalers (DPI) have a lower environmental impact. This study compares asthma treatment strategies by assessing both clinical effectiveness and carbon emissions, demonstrating that as-needed budesonide/formoterol DPI is more environmentally sustainable and clinically comparable with other treatments.
Elsevier, Joint Bone Spine, Volume 92, October 2025
This paper examines how climate change and environmental factors impact rheumatic diseases, introducing the concept of planetary health and the exposome as frameworks for understanding these interconnections.

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