Frontiers updates
23 Jan 2026
Frontiers Science House: did you miss it? Fresh stories from Davos – end of week wrap
Read more about the individual stories from the Frontiers Science House.
29 news posts in Healthcare
Frontiers news
21 Jan 2026
“Antimicrobial resistance pandemic will kill more people than cancer by 2050 and no one at Davos is talking about it" – leading scientists speak out at Frontiers Science House
At Frontiers Science House, Vanina Laurent Ledru, Chief Public Health and Government Affairs Officer of Institut Merieux and bioMerieux, warned that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) will be the next “pandemic” like COVID-19, killing more people than cancer by 2050. Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and Adèle James, Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of Phagos, urged immediate global action against AMR.
Frontiers news
21 Jan 2026
SPARK Microgravity announces plans for Europe’s first commercial cancer lab in space at Frontiers Science House in Davos
At Frontiers Science House, SPARK Microgravity GmbH revealed plans to build Europe’s first dedicated commercial orbital cancer lab. The lab will accelerate the path from discovery to therapy. In microgravity, researchers can run experiments that are impossible on Earth – including 3D tumor growth and revealing new drug targets.
Featured news
15 Dec 2025
Cannabis derivatives could provide new ovarian cancer treatments
Lab studies find that a combination of THC and CBD kills ovarian cancer cells without harming healthy cells
Frontiers news
19 Nov 2025
“I found this online”: Arch Mainous on how open science helps patients have open conversations with doctors
Patients who distrust the healthcare system are seven times more likely to clash with their doctors over online information, according to new research in Frontiers in Medicine. Lead author Dr Arch Mainous explains how open science — and open conversations — can help rebuild trust.
Health
30 Oct 2025
Scientists on ‘urgent’ quest to explain consciousness as AI gathers pace
As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent than ever.
Health
07 Oct 2025
AI and omics unlock personalized drugs and RNA therapies for heart disease
Reducing industrial animal use can help to shrink our carbon footprint and boost health—but doing so means we need nutritious meat alternatives that are also tasty and affordable.
Featured news
14 Feb 2025
Dangerous bacteria lurk in hospital sink drains, despite rigorous cleaning
Researchers from Spain sampled sink drains from different wards in a single modern university hospital where state-of-the-art cleaning protocols are adhered to. Through culturing and DNA barcoding, they found 67 species of bacteria. These included Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, notorious for their potential to cause healthcare-associated infections. Several strains detected proved resistant to modern antibiotics, including cephalosporins and carbapenems. Sink drains thus appear to function as reservoirs for known and emerging pathogens of concern.
Featured news
15 Nov 2024
Students who use dating apps take more risks with their sexual health
Researchers from the US looked for associations between the use of dating apps, sexual behavior, and a history of HIV/STIs among college students in North Texas. They showed that there was an association between risky sexual behavior and the use of dating apps. They propose that the two may be mutually reinforcing.
Health
26 Jul 2024
Conflicting health advice from agencies drives confusion, study finds, but doctors remain most trusted
Researchers from the US analyzed replies to the Health Information National Trends Survey and found that doctors are more trusted than scientists and especially government health agencies. The results revealed that perceived uncertainty in health recommendations, inherent in the scientific process, tends to confuse the public and undermine its trust in experts apart from doctors. This implies that doctors are best placed to communicate changes in recommendations, to ensure better health and restore trust in agencies.
Frontiers news
25 Jun 2024
Internet for billions in 100 countries with no current access and hope for transplant patients worldwide in new World Economic Forum emerging technologies report
The World Economic Forum, in association with Frontiers, new Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024, released today (25 June), shows that among technologies emerging globally, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and High-Altitude Platform Systems have the potential to connect billions worldwide who currently have no internet access.
Frontiers news
23 May 2024
Dr Eric Topol to explore how AI will shape the future of healthcare at Frontiers Forum virtual event
Digital medicine and medical AI pioneer Dr Eric Topol will address thousands of researchers and policy makers from around the world on June 12, highlighting the transformative potential of digital technologies on medicine and healthcare.
Publishing partnerships
22 Dec 2023
International Journal of Public Health: Smoking is still a risk for generation Z
A Slovakian study into generational attitudes to smoking has shown that generation Z is still attracted to cigarettes, even though data indicates the habit is waning in popularity among that age group.
Young Minds
14 Dec 2023
Frontiers for Young Minds and CERN ‘SPARK’ big questions in health technology
Frontiers for Young Minds has published the first articles in a new collection in collaboration with CERN, one of the world’s largest centers for scientific research. The collection, entitled 'SPARK-ing big questions: what is the future of health technology?', addresses key questions on how ground-breaking health technologies and science can improve human health for future generations.
Health
31 May 2023
‘Rethinking health beyond disability and disease’
by Liad Hollender, Frontiers science writer Image: Prof Gerold Stucki Is there more to health than just the absence of disease? According to a team of researchers from Swiss Paraplegic Research and the University of Lucerne, the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. In an article published in Frontiers in Science, the researchers explain how ‘human functioning’ – a new assessment of health – could revolutionize healthcare, and even help advance the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. But what is human functioning and why is it such a powerful concept? To find out, Frontiers spoke with the team – Prof Jerome Bickenbach, Prof Sara Rubinelli, Cristiana Baffone, and Prof Gerold Stucki. How would you define human functioning? Gerold: Functioning is a concept developed by the World Health Organization (WHO), which constitutes a rethinking of health that goes beyond disability and disease. It encompasses people’s biological health as well as their ‘lived health’ – the activities they perform in their daily lives. What activities? Everything from eating and grooming, to working and socializing. This way of thinking is important because while it’s true that our biological health affects what we can do, features of our environment can either improve this capacity or […]