Cart is empty A new article in OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology examines the ethical, equity, and societal/relational implications of digital health technologies for precision medicine in end-of-life care.
Q&A: AI, medicine and race—why ending ‘structural racism’ in health care is crucial
As artificial intelligence changes the way medicine is practiced, humans become more beholden to algorithms—making it crucial to get those machine-human collaborations correct at the outset.
For those at high risk, PTSD may be treatable before traumatic events even occur
When people experience trauma, medication can help prevent or reduce post-traumatic stress disorder, softening overly strong memories that cause debilitating flashbacks and nightmares. But this treatment works only if the pills are taken promptly after a traumatic experience.
MYC proteins: A potential target for new anti-cancer agents
MYC proteins play an important role in many types of cancer. A research team at the University of Würzburg has now succeeded in indirectly influencing these proteins—with clear consequences for the tumor.
Novel method unveils cancer origins: DNA methylation profiling reveals primary sites of metastatic cancers
In a Nature Communications study, Professor Gu Hongcang and his team from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), introduced an innovative method called BEta value-based LInear support VEctor (BELIVE) for tracing the origin of cancer of unknown primary sites (CUP).
Academics call for urgent establishment of NHS gambling harms services in Wales
In an article published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, Swansea University academics have called for NHS gambling harms services to be established in Wales, highlighting the ongoing absence of treatment services is unacceptable and must be urgently addressed by the Welsh Government.
Researchers: Mixed-gender hospital rooms are on the rise in New Zealand, but the practice is unsafe and unethical
Mixed-gender rooms are increasingly common in New Zealand’s hospitals, based on evidence from hospital complaints and a large Wellington study.
Drugs aren’t required to be tested in people who are obese. Here’s why that’s a problem
More than 40% of American adults are considered obese, yet the medications many take are rarely tested in bigger bodies.
People with prior illness more likely to report longer symptoms after COVID-19 infection, research finds
A study from King’s College London, which is published on the pre-print server MedRxiv and has not been peer-reviewed, shows that while two thirds of individuals with post-COVID illness were healthy before infection, individuals with long illness duration were significantly more likely to have similar symptoms one to two months before developing COVID-19.
Zambia will be fertiliser secure next year – Chipoka Mulenga
By NATION REPORTER
WITH the launching of the US$600 million Urea fertiliser plant in Lusaka, Zambia will be fertiliser secure by next year, Commerce, Trade and Industry Minister Chipoka Mulenga has said.
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