When an employee is off work sick in Italy, they are paid a benefit that could be translated literally into English as "compensation for illness." Similarly, if that person was working in Spain, their situation would be described ...
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A new World Health Organization (WHO) report reveals high levels of resistance in bacteria, causing life-threatening bloodstream infections, as well as increasing resistance to treatment in several bacteria causing common ...
Dec 9, 2022
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Despite decades of research, Alzheimer's disease remains a debilitating and eventually fatal dementia with no effective treatment options. More than 95 percent of Alzheimer's disease cases have no known origin. Now, scientists ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Nurses help millions of people address their physical and mental health. But who makes sure the nurses' health is taken care of? Dr. Farzan Sasangohar, associate professor in the Wm Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial ...
Nov 14, 2022
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Engineers from EPFL and the University of Strasbourg have developed an innovative surgical needle whose trajectory can be corrected on the fly, thanks to a flexible tip controlled with a simple button. Intended for use in ...
Oct 21, 2022
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Not all senescent cells are harmful "zombies" that should be wiped out to prevent age-related disease, according to new research from UC San Francisco, which found that some of them are embedded in young, healthy tissues ...
Oct 15, 2022
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With more of us living into old age than at any other time, dementia is increasing steadily worldwide, with major individual, family, societal and economic consequences.
Sep 30, 2022
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In the game Guess What?, created by Stanford researchers, an adult caregiver holds a smartphone to his or her forehead and asks a child to mimic an image displayed on the screen. It might be a monkey, a soccer player, or ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Lack of technical and financial support hinders efforts to implement global guidelines for antimicrobial resistance in Benin and Burkina Faso, new research shows.
Sep 20, 2022
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Lately, the phrase "wastewater surveillance" has been all over the news—but what is it, exactly? And why is it useful to researchers and public health experts trying to get a grasp on fluctuating levels of COVID-19 infection?
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