Wastewater surveillance hit the big time during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when officials started using this technique to monitor local virus levels. But my colleagues and I had been exploring wastewater's promise ...
Jun 13, 2024
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Chikungunya virus has caused substantial epidemics in the tropics, often with an even worse impact than dengue, but infections can also be relatively mild or even undetected. A study conducted in Brazil by researchers at ...
Jun 11, 2024
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Aging baby boomers are swelling the ranks of elderly across the Western world, with Norway no exception.
Mar 7, 2024
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The food industry in many low- and middle-income countries is dominated by the informal sector. Numerous micro and small businesses, which are not legally registered and mostly compete on the basis of price, handle much of ...
Jul 24, 2023
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A Paris suburb on Monday became the first municipality in France to allow women leave if they suffer from conditions linked to their menstrual cycles including period pain and endometriosis.
Mar 27, 2023
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Analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands suggests that locally targeted pandemic control measures could have been just as effective as national lockdowns, according to a study published March 7 in eLife.
Mar 7, 2023
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Recent research, now published in the journal Public Management Review, shows that the tight division between public and private services is not realistic and privatization of services does not automatically bring cost savings. ...
Dec 28, 2022
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With the "graying population" phenomenon becoming widespread, many countries are facing the challenge of caring for their elderly population. In Japan, the country with the oldest population, a universal long-term care (LTC) ...
Oct 5, 2022
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A follow-up study carried out at the University of Eastern Finland shows that the resources used by municipalities for physical activity do not automatically increase physical activity. More than resources, individual factors ...
Jun 28, 2022
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Shanghai slowly whirred back to life Wednesday as a range of COVID-19 restrictions were eased after a two-month lockdown that confined residents to their homes and battered the Chinese economy.
Jun 1, 2022
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