Impact of climate change on tropical fisheries would create ripples across the world
Seafood is the most highly traded food commodity globally, with tropical zone marine fisheries contributing…
Month: August 2020
Trump to order government to buy certain drugs solely from U.S. factories, setting up major shakeup for industry
WASHINGTON — President Trump will sign an executive later today directing the federal government to…
Lessons from the covid-19 pandemic provide a blueprint for the climate emergency
Two essential clinical principles have guided my practice as an emergency medicine doctor. First, I…
Covid-19: Mental health and economic problems are worse in US than in other rich nations
Covid-19 has caused mental health problems, economic hardship, and lack of trust in national leadership…
Breaking the menopause taboo: more must be done to support doctors, says BMA
Employers should take a proactive approach to normalising the topic of menopause and should spread…
Behavioural fatigue: a flawed idea central to a flawed pandemic response
What is behavioural fatigue? Nobody really knows, but it is something we should be acutely…
David Oliver: The medical examiner role could transform our approach to handling death
In April 2019 NHS Improvement announced a national programme to introduce a new medical examiner…
STAT Plus: Pharmalittle: AstraZeneca strikes first Covid-19 deal with a Chinese company; vaccine trials face distrust from minority groups
Good morning, everyone, and how are you today? We are doing just fine, thank you,…
The pandemic is being used as a screen to privatise, fragment, and weaken the NHS
Who could disagree with Roderick and colleagues’ clear and sensible proposals for moving contact tracing…
The S value . . . and other stories
Taken by surpriseDespite widespread criticism of significance testing, doctors, scientists, and journal editors continue to…
Acute onset rash in a limited distribution
A fit and well man in his 60s presented to the dermatology urgent assessment clinic…
Obese and hungry: two faces of a nation
Last week heralded both the government’s latest obesity policy paper for England and the first…
Covid-19 exposes the UK’s broken food system
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has exposed fundamental weaknesses in UK society. Some fragile systems, such as…
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Partha Kar: Our approach to tackling obesity needs rethinking
Obesity is a focus of political and media discussion, since multiple datasets have shown that…
Effective notification systems should be streamlined for the pandemic, not discarded
In theory, the UK has a comprehensive notification system, set in statute, whereby all clinically…
Covid-19 and ethnic minorities: the Public Health England report distracts from proactive and timely intervention
I disagree with Khunti and colleagues that the report by Public Health England (PHE) on…
Seven days in medicine: 29 July to 4 August 2020
Covid-19Pre-surgery shielding is liftedPatients in England having elective surgery no longer need to self-isolate for…
Opinion: As clinicians are redeployed for Covid-19, onboarding takes on extra importance
Think back to your first day at a new job. It was probably difficult to…
This California company has a better version of a simpler, faster Covid-19 test
In some parts of the U.S. right now, it can take weeks to get results…
How a Zoom forum is changing the way ICU doctors treat desperately ill Covid-19 patients
It was late April, near the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in the big cities…
Our Favorite Backpacks and Lunchboxes You’ll Love This School Year
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Genetics Home Reference: maturity-onset diabetes of the young
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CDC Vital Signs: Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM)
Source: Centers for Disease Control and PreventionRelated MedlinePlus Pages: Acute Flaccid Myelitis Read Original Article:…
Promising new research identifies novel approach for controlling defects in 3D printing
Scientists use temperature data to tune — and fix — defects in 3D-printed metallic parts….
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Herbivores, not predators, most at risk of extinction
One million years ago, the extinction of large-bodied plant-eaters changed the trajectory of life on…
Turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
Chemists report a new electrocatalyst that converts carbon dioxide and water into ethanol with very…
Alternative Remedies and Therapies, Five Reasons You Should Try Them – We Heart
Alternative Remedies and Therapies, Five Reasons You Should Try Them We Heart Read Original Article: Alternative…
STAT Plus: 10 burning questions about Teladoc’s $18.5 billion deal to buy Livongo
It’s hard to recall a deal that scrambled the dynamics of the health tech industry…
CBD Oil for Anxiety: A Better Option for Panic Attacks?
Panic attacks can knock you down for the count. Some people use CBD oil to…
CBD For Pain Relief: How Effective Is It Really?
CBD, one of the main components of cannabis, has long been touted as a pain…
Covid-19: care homes show the failures in UK’s response
The successful mitigation of covid-19 in a healthcare setting, as described by Liu and colleagues…
An iconic Native American stone tool technology discovered in Arabia
A new article examines fluted projectile points from southern Arabia, detailing production methods and technical…
Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft — orbiting and closely observing the planet Jupiter — has unexpectedly discovered…
Back-to-School in 2020: Making the Right Choice
Back-to-school time is usually filled with shopping, trying on clothes, and wondering about the year…
New Guinea has the world’s richest island flora
New Guinea is the most floristically diverse island in the world, an international collaboration has…
Dinosaur relative’s genome linked to mammals: Curious genome of ancient reptile
Biologists have sequenced the genome of the tuatara, a lizard-like creature that lives on the…
Manifestation of quantum distance in flat band materials
A research team found a way to measure the quantum distance of Bloch states in…
Drug suppliers are told to replenish stockpiles for Brexit and further pandemic this winter
The UK government has urged medicine suppliers to stockpile six weeks’ worth of drugs as…
World’s cameras focus on health
bmj;370/aug05_12/m3078/FAF1faAgness, a Ugandan midwife, listens to the heartbeat of a fetus in a photograph taken…
Blackstone agrees to buy Ancestry in $4.7 billion deal
Investment firm Blackstone announced on Wednesday that it was scooping up direct-to-consumer genetics company Ancestry…
Don’t Depend on Coconut Oil for Heart Health; It Increases LDL Cholesterol
The coconut oil in your pantry may not be as heart healthy as you thought…
Coroner warns about poor drug reviews after patient dies from tramadol overdose
A senior coroner has demanded action by Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, to…
How tumor cells evade the immune defense
Scientists are increasingly trying to use the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. A…
New strategy against osteoporosis
An international research team has found a new approach that may be able to reduce…
Virtual Event: CRISPR’s forward march
Editor’s note: A livestream of this virtual event will be posted above at 1 p.m….
Ancient mountains recorded in Antarctic sandstones reveal potential links to global events
A new analysis of sandstones from Antarctica indicates there may be important links between the…
Break it down: A new way to address common computing problem
A new algorithm provides a framework for solving complex linear inverse problems that doesn’t require…
How thoughts could one day control electronic prostheses, wirelessly
The current generation of neural implants record enormous amounts of neural activity, then transmit these…
Improved modelling of nuclear structure in francium aids searches for new physics
Thanks to new research, we now know with much greater certainty the nuclear magnetic moments…
Carbon footprinting and pricing under climate concerns
Marketers can lead how their companies can use the cost and demand effects of reducing…