This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a collection of poetry that looks at writing, cityscapes, and broken husbands, a volume on how disease reshaped colonial policy,and how its politics is present in India today, and a book on an eminent artist. (Amit Sharma)
This marks the single-largest concentration of cholesterol-related disease burden on the planet, as per the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 study, published in the medical journal JAMA.
Microscopic image provided by the CDC shows cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts found in a stool sample, which had been prepared with a formalin solution and stained with safranin.