One form of eczema, atopic dermatitis, results in very unpleasant itchy, red, scaly rashes often over large parts of the body. Blistering can occur and splitting of the skin, which can exude and leaves the skin open to infection. The genetic cause of eczema has just...
Dr. Kevin Foster, from the University of Oxford, visited the Center for Evolution and Medicine at Arizona State University last week to talk about competition and sociability among a variety of bacteria, some of which call our guts home. Using humorous descriptions of...
The second edition of “Principles of Evolutionary Medicine” by Peter Gluckman et al is now out. It is too early for it to have garnered any reviews but here is the description of its contents from the Amazon website: “Evolutionary science is critical...
The $5,000 George C Williams Prize is awarded by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, & Public Health for the paper judged to be the best research paper published in the preceding year in the Society’s Journal, Evolution, Medicine, & Public...
