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The move to from a reactive approach in medicine, when diseases or disturbances are treated once they are serious enough to present a problem, to a proactive, patient-centric attitude could be a para…
Global issues such as climate change, social inequalities, and environmental breakdowns are borderless, meaning no country can tackle them alone. International collaboration will be essential in miti…
Prof. Stephen Hargarten from Medical College of Wisconsin discusses his experience of working in Emergency Room care, his research into harm reduction, social models to reduce the incidence, and risk…
Prof Robert Brent, Professor of Economics at Fordham University, discusses his new book on interventions for managing dementia, and cost-benefit approaches to life and healthcare.
The book, Cost-Benef…
The New Personality Self-Portrait25, or NPSP25 is the work of psychiatrist John M. Oldham, M.D., in longtime collaboration with mental health journalist and author Lois B. Morris, and more recently, …
Dr Stanley Luck of Vector Analytics LLC has developed a novel parametric framework for multidimensional linear regression, following collaborative research and developments involving the identificati…
Mining, fracking and other georesource activities pose various environmental hazards - groundwater contamination, air pollution, and even significant earthquakes
The EPOS Thematic Core Service for An…
Emeritus Professor Gregg Barak, is co-founder of the Journal of White Collar & Corporate Crime. Barak is also a three-time award-winning author and editor of books on crime, justice, media, violence,…
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN set out the aims of ensuring the future of life on Planet Earth is clean, healthy, and rich in biodiversity. However, reaching these goals is ex…
Innovation is an important driver for increasing a firms profit margins. However, short-term expenses in the innovation process, with a short product life cycle common among highly innovative leaps, …
Substance use disorders (SUD) are common within the population of people with HIV, and this can have a detrimental effect on their progression along the HIV care continuum. Despite this, SUD services…
Higher Education Institutions, or HEIs, have been forced to reconfigure their activities as a result of the pandemic.
Based on new research, Prof Lloyd George Waller argues that the difference between…
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) represent around 90% of businesses and more than 50% of worldwide employment. Despite their economic relevance, most insolvency jurisdictions fail to…
Estuaries are incredibly variable environments, which can make fish monitoring using traditional sampling gear difficult. Dr Joseph Merz has developed a new non-invasive sampling system, The Platform…
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS or ME) is a complex, long-term, and highly debilitating condition whose causes and mechanisms have been poorly understood until now.
The research of Professor Sonya Mars…
Across history, people have developed multiple ways of occupying their free time through a host of leisure activities. Professor Robert Stebbins at the University of Calgary has provided a seminal fr…
Proton therapy is an effective technique for fighting cancer. In order to optimise treatment, it is clear that each patient must be carefully assessed each time and radiation plans must be adapted ba…
Dr Jan Czyzyk explores the biomolecules serpins, and how serpin activity can affect the inflammation and tissue regeneration of cells in the pancreas. Their research opens the possibility for anti-se…
The field of psycho-neuroimmunology – the study of relationships between the nervous and immune systems – has pioneered significant discoveries in areas like stress, mindfulness, ancient exercise and…
Breast cancer on the African continent, and in Nigeria especially, is notable for being biologically distinct from those predominantly diagnosed among White populations in the United States and Europ…