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Innovative Solutions to Save 1.5 Million Children from Diarrhea

For many years, Chief physician Birger Forsberg has been working with international health issues, and has a particular interest in diarrhoea diseases children…

Life & Chemistry

Unraveling the Genetic Trigger Behind the Cambrian Explosion

Using the method they named 'genomic phylostratigraphy', its authors shed new and unexpected light on some of the long standing macroevolutionary issues, which…

Health & Medicine

Blood Pressure Drugs Reduce Diabetes Death Rate: Study Insights

One of the study leaders, Professor Stephen MacMahon from The George Institute for International Health in Australia, said “these results represent an…

Health & Medicine

New Insights in Risk Stratification for Acute Heart Failure

Differently from myocardial infarction that has comparable incidence and short term mortality, risk stratification models for patient with acutely…

Health & Medicine

Diabetes Impact on Heart Disease in Europe: Key Insights

Recent large surveys and registries in patients with heart failure, including the Euro Heart Failure Surveys (EHFS) I and II, have shown that diabetes in such…

Environmental Conservation

Wildlife Recovery Hits Roadblock: Rare Birds in Decline

The rare stone-curlew, one of England’s most elusive birds, has thrived on farmland called set-aside, which has also helped declining skylarks, yellowhammers,…

Health & Medicine

US Cancer Surveillance Faces Decline in Reporting Accuracy

A report obtained by The Lancet Oncology details a precipitous decline in US Veteran Affairs (VA) reporting of new cancer cases to California registries…

Health & Medicine

Combination Drug Therapy May Lower Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes

By 2030, an estimated 350 million people will be living with diabetes worldwide. Individuals with type 2 diabetes are at an increased risk of cardiovascular…

Physics & Astronomy

SMART-1: A Year of Discoveries from Europe’s Moon Mission

One year on, we present ongoing scientific highlights of the mission. The analysis of data and simulations of the satellite’s impact provide clues on the…

Studies and Analyses

Studying the Evolution of the International Industrial Gases Industry

The economic and technological impact of the industry cannot be overestimated and the study – funded by German-based gas and engineering company, the Linde…

Medical Engineering

3-D Cell Culture Model Reveals Tumor Uptake of Nanoparticles

Therapy for brain cancers is particularly difficult for a number of reasons, including getting sufficient drug to the tumour and selectivity of drug action. Dr…

Information Technology

Intelligent Decision Technologies: Enhancing Real-Time Choices

Decisions must often be made in real-time under uncertain, stressful conditions that may change rapidly. Synergies between intelligent and information…

Physics & Astronomy

Coming up this month in Physics World…A testing time for strings

With its talk of D-branes, 10- or 11- dimensional universes and a myriad of possible solutions – 10500 at the last count – string theory looks to many…

Life & Chemistry

Fresh Leafy Greens: Safe Solutions Against E. Coli Risks

“The only land suitable for supplying this abundance of year-round, high quality, fresh leafy vegetables, which are eaten raw by large populations in Europe…

Life & Chemistry

New viruses to treat bacterial diseases – "My enemies’ enemy is my friend”

With antibiotics now over-prescribed for treatments of bacterial infections, and patients failing to complete their courses of treatment properly, many…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Hepatitis E in Europe: Are Pigs and Pork to Blame?

Hepatitis E virus is one of the few viruses which has been shown to be transmitted directly from animals through food. It was recently thought to be confined…

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