Imposter syndrome—a particular problem for medical students
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Moosa Qureshi: My battle with the government over transparency and covid-19 pandemic preparedness
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Trusts pays {pound}2.8m to couple for whose baby was stillborn after five days of labour
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Mandatory covid-19 vaccination for healthcare workers: all employers are bound by health and safety laws to reduce risk
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Turning up the heat on the NHS: it’s not fair only to blame the government
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Cancer trial recruitment fell by 60% last year during pandemic
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A healthcare system close to collapse in Afghanistan
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Avoiding the trap of causality
In medicine, the timing of an intervention is critical, but once a treatment or procedure…
Association of bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy with all cause and cause specific mortality: population based cohort study
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Opinion: Vaccine equity is essential. Vaccine makers need to drop barriers to reaching refugees and other displaced people
National-level Covid-19 vaccination figures can tell a lot about how the battle against the pandemic…
Opinion: Gatekeepers need to tame ‘Wild West’ of mental health and other digital health therapeutics
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A decade without data: Eating disorder researchers say a gap in CDC survey has left them flying blind
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STAT+: At biotech venture capital firms, collecting ‘consulting fees’ from startups has become widespread
Some of the biggest names in biotech venture capital have charged their startups millions of…
Seven days in medicine: 1-7 December 2021
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HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital Announces Prenatal Education Class Dates For 2022 – RiverBender.com
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Will catching COVID in pregnancy affect your baby’s development? – Al Jazeera English
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MRI study shows COVID-19 during pregnancy does not harm fetal brain development – Healio
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Internet Backs Redditor After Brother’s ‘Insulting’ Response to Pregnancy Announcement – Newsweek
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Ashley Graham Tries Cupping on Her Pregnant Belly—What Is It For? – SELF
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Durban +20: ‘Nobody’ is free from the impacts of racism, intolerance
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COVID-19 linked to rise in TB deaths in Africa: WHO ‘In no circumstances’ should COVID…
International study supports dupilumab for treatment of moderate-to-severe asthma in children
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Prescribing the abortion pill without restrictions is safe and effective, study finds
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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE AS A WAY OF DEALING WITH “CORONAVIRUS FEARS” – Bangkok Post
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The new approach to nootropics: Addressing demand for brain health supplements across three different generations of consumers – Nutritional Outlook
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The impact of drugs on gut microbes is greater than we thought
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Take a deep breath: Asthma drug study failed to include Black and Puerto Rican children who could benefit most
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STAT+: AbbVie unit to pay $200 million to resolve closely watched opioid lawsuit in New York
Allergan, which is a unit of AbbVie (ABBV) agreed to pay up to $200 million…
Unilateral sanctions particularly harmful to women, children, other vulnerable groups
Women, children and other vulnerable groups are more likely to have their human rights impacted…
Ammonite muscles revealed in 3D from Jurassic fossil
Researchers have revealed the soft tissues of a 165-million-year-old ammonite fossil using 3D imaging. Read…
ESO telescope images planet around most massive star pair to date
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has captured an image of a…
Transforming materials with light
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Blood from marathoner mice boosts brain function in their couch-potato counterparts
Researchers have shown that blood from young adult mice that are getting lots of exercise…
WHO: Omicron could have ‘major impact’, but no definitive answers yet
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Gravitational waves could be key to answering why more matter was left over after Big Bang
If researchers can detect Q-balls in gravitational waves, it could help explain why more matter…
Opinion: Ending the pandemic requires global solidarity, not blame
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UN’s truth-teller on racism, xenophobia and intolerance sees signs of hope, amid COVID quagmire and rising hate speech
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These tiny liquid robots never run out of juice as long as they have food
Scientists at Berkeley Lab and the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated the first self-powered,…
Physical features boost the efficiency of quantum simulations
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Pfizer’s vaccine chief on Omicron, mix-and-match boosters, and being prepared for the unknown
Pfizer and partner BioNTech announced Wednesday that new data show that antibodies generated by their…
Global health system resilience is in everyone’s interest
With an official death toll that has just surpassed five million, the covid-19 global crisis…
In Minneapolis, home to George Floyd, heavy policing is tied to higher rates of preterm births
The longstanding toll of police violence on Black communities came into sharp relief last year…
STAT+: In the blood of marathoning mice, scientists find clues to how exercise benefits the brain
If you give a mouse a wheel, it will run, and run, and run: between…
Natural infection and vaccination together provide maximum protection against COVID variants
A combination of vaccination and naturally acquired infection appears to boost the production of maximally…
In a merger of opposites, City of Hope to buy Cancer Treatment Centers of America for $390 million
City of Hope, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit hospital system, said Wednesday that it will purchase…