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The study, published in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia, used existing brain scans and questionnaire responses from more than 23,000 middle-aged and older adults from a large biomedical database. The work is part of a broader collaborative project between the U of A Department of Psychology, the Zuckerman College of Public Health and the University of Southern California

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report launched today. Between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance rose in over 40% of the pathogen-antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual increase of 5–15%.