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Legionella risk assessments – Is yours’ suitable and sufficient?
It is a legal requirement to assess the risk posed by legionella bacteria in all commercial properties. The risk assessment must be “suitable” and “sufficient”. As the complexity of water systems increases, along with the number of outlets, components, and systems, the need for expert external assistance tends to rise.
Iron deficiency- a modifiable social determinant of health in chronic pain?
Iron plays a role in pain perception- it is critical to the synthesis of serotonin, a neurotransmitter known for its powerful pain-modulating effects. Symptoms of iron deficiency are similar to those of chronic pain conditions, such as fibromyalgia.
Bridging science and art: A path to climate transformation
In times of growing awareness of climate change and the need to adapt social behaviour accordingly, art emerges as a particularly empowering format that can potentially contribute to a cultural paradigm shift.
Adapting the Icelandic Prevention Model to improve the wellbeing of young people in Ireland
Improving health outcomes for young people: What is the Icelandic Prevention Model, and how does it work.
Cooperation on the coastal tourism adaptation to climate change
The Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) and the Blue Flag Programme cooperate on the coastal tourism adaptation to climate change.
A one-two punch against knee osteoarthritis
A minimally invasive surgery combined with an autologous adipose stem cell transplant achieves a remarkable 88% cartilage regeneration rate.
Canada’s National Pain Awareness Week reached over 1.4 million people
The opioid crisis has identified the extent of chronic pain as a health problem in Canada and the necessity of addressing pain as part of the solution to the crisis.
GERICS: Towards resilient cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is an integral part of urban areas as an expression of their social, economic, and environmental development. Here, GERICS explain how they can help.
Infections after avoidable knee replacement surgeries
With the implementation of the KHPO, knee replacement surgeries would have been unnecessary, sparing patients from significant suffering
Tackling chronic pain: Opioids and other treatments
Chronic pain is a complex condition with far-reaching consequences. This review explores the latest research on factors contributing to its development and the potential of early interventions to prevent its onset.
GERICS: Supporting Climateurope2 and standards for Climate Services
Climateurope2 is a 4.5-year Horizon Europe funded project that addresses the need for timely delivery and effective use of climate information
Preconceived ideas, ideologies, and basic biological principles in controversies in early origin of life...
According to sociologist Robert Merton (1942), the creation of universal and objective knowledge is dependent on the detachment of scientists from their work because passion and preconceived ideas are obstacles to objectivity and scientific progress.
The RSE, autonomy and guidelines for management to increase innovation
Dr Joanna Leng, Dr Phillip Brooker and Emeritus Prof Wes Sharrock, have put together, from their theoretical and practical experience, a set of potentially fruitful areas to consider for the management of RSE and other associated professionals practices that, they believe, will increase innovation.
Returning to an active life with knee osteoarthritis
Here Open Access Government explore a testimonial from a patient who received a “wonder” therapy for his knee osteoarthritis (OA).
Driving down the worldwide IT project failure rate of 70%, and boosting success
One of Open Access Government’s current commentators, David P Jacobs of MaxVal Consultancy, is leading a strong attack on the disconcertingly expensive project failure rate of the last 40 years.
Focused research to enable safer and more effective use of opioids
Over the past year, the Michael G DeGroote Institute for Pain Research and Care has offered a series of articles in Open Access Government...
The full diversity of the RSE Role
To better understand the current state and problem of RSE, it would be useful to have a clearer understanding of what kind(s) of work are currently identified as such, whether they comprise a uniform kind of work or feature diverse subgroupings with differentiated practices involving perhaps, dominant and minority groups.
Northwestern VLSI Lab delivers AI empowered neural processing for intelligent human machine interface and...
Conventional wearable devices mostly rely on motion detection or image classifications to capture users’ activities. What is missing in many existing wearable devices is the decoding of neural signals generated by the human body.
Machine learning helps to improve climate services
Machine Learning methods have received significant attention in the past few years as a game changer for product development and Climate Services.
Online education: A new and fresh approach
The University of Birmingham is harnessing the power of online education to ensure students are job-ready and a step ahead of the competition.
