Guidelines/Treaties/Agreements

The Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute and partners have presented evidence for a shift to Dolutegravir-containing ART in SACredit: Wits University The South African study shows that dolutegravir-containing regimens perform…
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Cosmetic product degrades MRI and presents patient hazardCredit: American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) Leesburg, VA, July 24, 2019--A new cosmetic product, magnetic eyelashes, should be of interest and concern to radiology…
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With the first large fines for breaching EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regulations upon us, and the UK government about to review GDPR guidelines, researchers have shown how even anonymised datasets can be traced back to…
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Virtually every day, millions of children and adolescents are being bombarded by sexually explicit direct-to-consumer advertising, despite pharmaceutical CEOs' claims to the contrary. Leading business ethicist Denis Arnold from the…
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Credit: Trends in Ecology & Evolution President Xi Jinping staked out China's role as a committed player to tackle the climate crisis and build an "ecological civilization." In a review published July 10 in the journal Trends…
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Credit: McKenzie Johnson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Conflict over resource extraction is rampant in sub-Saharan Africa, with small-scale miners violently pitted against multinational mining corporations - and the state security…
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Credit: ARPHA and Transpose All open-access, peer-reviewed academic titles of Pensoft's, as well as those using the white-label publishing solution provided by the scholarly publishing platform ARPHA, have their journal policy data fed…
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Logging roads are expanding dramatically in the Congo Basin, leading to catastrophic collapses in animal populations living in the world's second-largest rainforest, according to research co-led by a scientist at James Cook University in…
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Studies provide evidence for urgent need to tackle smoking globally, especially in low-to-middle-income countriesCredit: York University News TORONTO, June 20, 2019 - There is no statistical evidence that global cigarette consumption has…
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On June 22, 1969, the Cuyahoga River, which flows through Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire. Although firefighters extinguished the blaze within 30 minutes, the shocking event helped galvanize the U.S. environmental movement. Fifty years…
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Everyone knows cigarette smoking causes cancer and as a result, prices and advertising are closely regulated to discourage youth from starting. But another cancer risk, indoor tanning, which has been shown to cause melanoma, lags in…
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Study cites elephant reintroduction programs as a model for wildlife releases Increasing the success of wildlife translocations is critical, given the escalating global threats to wildlife. A study published in May 2019 in the journal…
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The current Nor­we­gian Bar­ents Sea oil spill risk governance frame­work would need considerable remodelingCredit: Tuuli Parviainen A recent case study from the University of Helsinki examines different ways of framing oil spill…
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Credit: NTU Singapore A third (34 per cent) of eczema management mobile applications provide information that does not agree with international treatment and condition guidelines, a study led by Nanyang Technological University,…
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