The growing use of smart home devices is undermining the privacy and safety of domestic workers. New research reveals how surveillance technologies reinforce a sense of constant monitoring and control by domestic workers' employers, increasing their vulnerability and impacting their mental wellbeing.
Read more …Smart home devices used to monitor domestic workers raise safety concerns
A recent clinical trial finds the anti-parasitic drug moxidectin -- currently approved to treat river blindness, another tropical disease caused by parasitic worms -- is also more effective for lymphatic filariasis than the current gold standard, ivermectin.
Read more …A faster route to eliminating parasitic infection endemic to Africa