Adding a pre-ketone supplement — a component of a high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet — to a type of cancer therapy in a laboratory setting was highly effective for treating prostate cancer, researchers from the University of Notre Dame found.

Between 2008 and 2020, districts across the country of Bangladesh saw a 93% reduction in malaria cases. Today, as the world reflects on the World…

Jason Rohr, Galla Professor and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, is the United States national champion for the Frontiers Planet Prize,…

Heidi Beidinger is passionate about science and public health which has fueled her nearly 10-year crusade to get children tested for lead poisoning and help their families remediate lead found in and around their homes. The source of the poisoning…

A study from the University of Notre Dame, Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Institutes of Health has identified a combination of medications that may improve blood flow within granulomas, benefiting drug delivery. Published in the Proceedings of the National...

For over 8,000 years, the “white death,” tuberculosis (TB), has plagued humankind. Its effects are described in Biblical verses and appear in mummies from Ancient Egypt. Those infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes TB, can now be cured thanks to...

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are engaging community partners in St. Joseph County, Indiana, to improve access to health care services for pregnant and postpartum women in underserved areas of the community with the  Pop Up Pregnancy &...

Although two hundred years have passed since the development of the first antimalaria treatment and over 140 years since…

Karla Gonzalez Serrano, postdoctoral scholar for the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health, has always wanted to join a team that helps doctors provide better care. …

In India, iron-deficient anemia (IDA) among children less than five years old is on the rise, leading to higher “hidden” morbidity and mortality. IDA causes headaches, fatigue, and developmental delays, including physical and cognitive impairment among children. Anemia prevalence in...

“Paradise in wilderness” is how Rev. John Francis (later Cardinal) O’Hara, C.S.C, described the property today known…

In a new study in NPJ Genomic Medicine, researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found that a largely understudied cell could offer new insight into how the aggressive, primary brain cancer is able to resist immunotherapy.

The Board of Trustees of the University of Notre Dame has elected Rev. Robert A. Dowd, C.S.C., as the University’s 18th president, effective June 1. He will succeed Rev. John…

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have conducted an analysis of the World Mosquito Program’s randomized control trial of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in Indonesia, looking at how excluding transmission dynamics impacted the original interpretation of the trial’s results.

Four PhD students at the University of Notre Dame have joined the Eck Institute for Global Health as graduate research fellows. The Institute will support the students as they pursue topics in global health, including…

For the 2.2 million U.S. farm workers who identify…

Each day, over 6,500 newborns and nearly 800 pregnant and postpartum women die from complications globally, according to data collected in 2020…

Globally, one in four people lack access to clean drinking…

Eck Institute for Global Health launches global health minor in fall 2023…

Schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease that causes organ damage and death, affected more than 250 million people worldwide in 2021, according to the World Health Organization. One of the world’s most burdensome neglected tropical diseases, schistosomiasis occurs when worms are transmitted...