From uniquely human ailments, to hunter-gatherer diseases, to the evolution of sleep disorders and chronic inflammation, the next CARTA symposium, “Implications of Anthropogeny for Medicine and Health,” will offer insights relevant to all humans and our origins. When:...
A report by Uranga, et al. of a randomized trial of 312 patients with pneumonia published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine, has found that continuing antibiotics more than 5 days gives no additional benefit if the patient is stable and has been afebrile for 48...
In a recent blog post (http://evmed.asu.edu/blog/evolutionary-medicine-top-ten-questions), Randy Nesse suggests that the presentations and discussions at the second annual conference of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health (ISEMPH) were...
This is a fascinating piece in Physorg about the likelihood that mother’s can transmit genes to their children that harm their sons but not their daughters – thanks to an evolutionary arms race between mitochondrial DNA (only transmitted by females in ova)...
