FAU resident physicians report COVID-19 impacts
The COVID-19 pandemic has had many deleterious consequences for health care workers, including the challenges of caring for severely ill patients. Resident physicians, in particular,...
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Moonshot Goal 1: the 2nd International Symposium on Cybernetic Avatars: September 30
The Moonshot Research and Development Program launched by the Cabinet Office of Japan promotes high-risk, high-impact R&D aiming to achieve ambitious Moonshot Goals and solve...
Public knowledge of monkeypox increases
PHILADELPHIA – The public’s knowledge about monkeypox has increased rapidly in recent weeks though misconceptions and uncertainty persist, and over a quarter of Americans say...
Refreezing poles feasible and cheap, new study finds
The poles are warming several times faster than the global average, causing record smashing heatwaves that were reported earlier this year in both the Arctic...
Global warming doubled the risk for Copenhagen’s historic 2011 cloudburst
It is seven o'clock in the evening on July 2nd, 2011. A cloudburst of historic proportions has just struck north of Copenhagen. On the roof...
Scientists reveal the true identity of a Chinese octopus
As they were collecting cephalopod samples in Dongshan island in China’s Fujian Province, a team of researchers came across an interesting finding: a new-to-science species...
Talk with your hands? You might think with them too!
How do we understand words? Scientists don’t fully understand what happens when a word pops into your brain. A research group led by Professor Shogo...
The Lancet: New report details “massive global failures” of COVID-19 response, calls for improved multilateral cooperation to end pandemic and effectively manage future global health threats
Peer-reviewed/ Review, Opinion and Analysis/ PeopleCredit: The Lancet Peer-reviewed/ Review, Opinion and Analysis/ People New Lancet Commission critically considers the global response to the first...
Using artificial intelligence to improve tuberculosis treatments
Imagine you have 20 new compounds that have shown some effectiveness in treating a disease like tuberculosis (TB), which affects 10 million people worldwide and...
First-in-Canada MOU between university of Ottawa and College of Family Physicians of Canada to advance global training and research
A new, first-in-Canada MOU between the Faculty of Medicine and the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) reinforces the Faculty’s commitment to social accountability,...
University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine team reveals underpinnings of how motor memory forms
When you are first learning how to ride a bicycle or play a musical instrument, your physical movements are uncoordinated at best. But with time...
Europlanet Science Congress 2022 – Final media invitation and details of media briefings
The 2022 Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) will take place at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada, Spain, from 18-23 September 2022. The meeting this year will take...
Better screening could predict and prevent sudden cardiac death in young people
Nearly nine in ten cases of sudden cardiac death (SCD) due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in young people are preceded by symptoms, ECG abnormalities or...
Real time reporting of racial discrimination is associated with salivary cortisol changes in Black adults, on both the same day and the next day, illuminating the stress response to microaggressions over time
Real time reporting of racial discrimination is associated with salivary cortisol changes in Black adults, on both the same day and the next day, illuminating...
International study led by Singapore scientists discovers bacteria previously thought harmless can worsen existing lung disease
A team of international scientists led by the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has discovered that Neisseria - a genus of bacteria that lives...
