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