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Wearing outdoor shoes indoors can bring in more than just a bit of dirt and blades of grass. Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock

April 15, 2025

Why you should think twice before wearing outdoor shoes indoors

Manal Mohammed, University of Westminster

Wearing outdoor shoes inside can spread of bacteria, allergens, and toxic chemicals — all of which can compromise your health and indoor air quality.

Indigenous cultures possess ancestral knowledge and an in-depth understanding of plants that deserves to be recognized, preserved and promoted for the benefit of society as a whole. (Olivier Fradette)

July 26, 2023

Plants of the boreal forest: Using traditional Indigenous medicine to create modern treatments

Marianne Piochon, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC); Andre Pichette, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC); Jean Legault, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC), and Vakhtang Mshvildadze, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)

New scientific discoveries are being made by drawing on Indigenous peoples’ ancestral knowledge about medicinal plants.

Bacteria can team up with viruses to cause coinfections. Erlon Silva - TRI Digital/Moment via Getty Images

August 17, 2022

When COVID‑19 or flu viruses kill, they often have an accomplice – bacterial infections

Hayley Muendlein, Tufts University

Coinfections with bacteria can make viral infections even deadlier. Researchers have identified a protein in immune cells that may play a role in fighting both types of pathogens.

Rates of resistance to the bacteria commonly known as golden staph are at least double in remote Indigenous communities what they are in Australia’s major cities. Lucy Hughes Jones/AAP

December 9, 2019

Antibiotic resistance is an even greater challenge in remote Indigenous communities

Asha Bowen, The Kids Research Institute Australia and Steven Tong, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health challenges of the modern day. It’s especially prevalent, and must be acted on, in Australia’s remote Indigenous communities.

Toxic shock syndrome has many causes, but tampons are one cause women should be aware of. from www.shutterstock.com

January 29, 2018

Toxic shock syndrome is rare. Be vigilant but not alarmed

Deborah Bateson, University of Sydney

Toxic shock syndrome is the body’s response to toxins produced when bacteria that lives in and on us grows to dangerous levels.

A recipe for an eyesalve from ‘Bald’s Leechbook.’ © The British Library Board (Royal MS 12 D xvii)

April 17, 2017

Medieval medical books could hold the recipe for new antibiotics

Erin Connelly, University of Pennsylvania

A team of medievalists and scientists look back to history – including a 1,000-year-old eyesalve recipe – for clues to new antibiotics.

Staph aureus bloodstream infection has a 12-month death rate of between 20 and 35%. Joe Techapanupreeda/Shutterstock

April 8, 2015

Golden staph: the deadly bug that wreaks havoc in hospitals

Frank Bowden, ACT Health

Which of the following conditions would you prefer to have during your next stay in hospital? A. Staphylococcus aureus (Golden Staph) bloodstream infection; or B. a heart attack?

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