Abstracts for the 9th annual meeting of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health are welcome for talks, posters, discussions and symposia. But the deadline is looming! Friday, March 1 is the deadline for abstract...
Nominations are open now for the 2018 Omenn Prize, to be awarded at the 2019 ISEMPH Meeting in Zurich. The submission deadline is March 31, 2019 The International Society for Evolution, Medicine & Public Health invites nominations for the Omenn Prize of $5000 for...
Back on June 4th I published a post on the Evmedreview which I titled “A new role for an old villain”. In it I documented the recent research by Rob Moir of Harvard University which has shown that beta-amyloid – long accused of causing...
A research group drawn from the University of Chicago and University of Nottingham, UK, has just published a paper on Peto’s Paradox with direct reference to the evolution of large body size in elephants. This link takes you to the abstract where there is a...
A new paper published last week in Nature Medicine shows that the gut microbes present in some one-month old infants predict a three-fold higher risk of developing allergies by age 2 and asthma by age 4, says a press release issued by the University of California in...