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Enhancing community-based disease surveillance using Afyadata in Mozambique
SACIDS, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Mozambique is capitalizing on its AfyaData, a digital disease surveillance app, to enhance early detection, timely reporting and prompt feedback/response to health-related signals/events, including COVID-19 and other priority diseases in the country.
Genetics and machine learning can improve blood transfusion outcomes
Better blood transfusion outcomes for patients and better protection of the NHS blood supply can be achieved with machine learning, argue Drs Samuel McDermott, Nicholas Gleadall and Sara Trompeter.
The fentanyl crisis: Death at the end of the rainbow
Chelsea Unkel, Ryan Hogans, & Pamela Lein from the University of California, Davis, analyse the fentanyl crisis responsible for increases in drug overdose across the US.
Can dietary interventions help treat children with ADHD?
Lessa Schippers & Jeanette Mostert, departments of Genetics and Psychiatry, Radboudumc Nijmegen, The Netherlands, explore how dietary interventions may have added value to current treatment and reduce medication use for children with ADHD.
Remyelinating versus neuroprotective therapies for multiple sclerosis
Reducing clinical relapses and improving quality of life is at the heart of MS treatment; here Tara M. DeSilva explores the benefits of remyelinating versus neuroprotective therapies for tackling MS.
Creating an environment that supports and protects breastfeeding
The Centre for Lactation, Infant Feeding and Translation (LIFT) at Swansea University seeks to better support families in feeding their baby.
Keep your teeth for life: Wellness experience teeth cleaning
Dr Marcel Donnet and Dr Neha Dixit discuss oral hygiene and the importance of teeth cleaning to maintain physical wellness.
Care homes: Data and digital readiness
Lucy Johnston, Senior Research Fellow from Edinburgh Napier University, sets out how care home residents could benefit from data-driven innovative approaches to care.
Long Covid lessons: beyond winter and the COVID pandemic
Paying attention to Long Covid lessons is key: Long Covid has already provided lessons for other long-term conditions and planning for future pandemics far beyond COVID-19.
Changes in the fee system for acute care hospitals will contribute to reducing their...
Acute care hospitals in Japan need to restructure their management strategies, says Hiroki Konno, Professor of College Economics at Nihon University.
Who benefits more from the cognitive effects of B vitamins?
Further understanding of the characteristics of the responders may shed light on how B vitamins benefit brain health and the formulation of more effective forms of B vitamins.
Killing cancer softly: The resolution of cancer lies in tumor cells
Dr Dipak Panigrahy, M.D., an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School looks at killing tumor cells to resolve the cancer epidemic.
Keeping your teeth for life?
Professional teeth cleaning is essential for maintaining oral hygiene and reducing risk of caries, any tooth decay, periodontal or peri-implant disease.
Evaluating a novel treatment for opioid use disorder based on dual-brain psychology and photobiomodulation
Dr. Fredric Schiffer, founder and CEO of MindLight, LLC, looks at treatments for opioid use disorder based on Dual-Brain Psychology and photobiomodulation. Dr. Schiffer is also a part-time assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Alzheimer’s drug slows memory decline in phase 3 trial
Henry Scowcroft from Alzheimer’s Research UK, argues that an Alzheimer’s drug, lecanemab, can slow memory decline in a phase 3 trial.
Tuberculosis drug regimens and their efficacies
Andrew Nunn, Professor of Epidemiology in the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL, analyses tuberculosis drug development.
Is CB₂R a hidden treasure trove for treating inflammatory diseases?
Expert scientists working on endocannabinoid system (ECS) trials explain how CB₂R can be used to treat inflammatory diseases.
Benefits of exploring the effect of the gut microbiota on the brain
Danique Mulder, Mirjam Bloemendaal & Alejandro Arias Vásquez from the departments of Psychiatry & Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, look at gut microbiota...
Tick-borne Diseases Transmission Research: Co-Feeding in Ticks
Tick-borne diseases such as Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis are primarily transmitted during the blood feeding process, through systemic and co-feeding horizontal transmission routes.
Upregulation of hnRNPC1/C2 expression in preeclampsia: a potential rationale for vitamin D insensitivity
Drs Yuping Wang and David F. Lewis from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – Shreveport discuss hnRNPC1/C2 upregulation, a potential rationale for vitamin D insensitivity.
