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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.
Knee OA therapy offers pain relief to patients
A patient with knee osteoarthritis (OA) provides a testimonial for "wonder" therapy that has relieved painful symptoms.
Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz: Two biologists in Nazi Germany
In 1973, three biologists shared the Nobel Prize for medicine: two Austrians who had conducted most of their research in Germany, Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz, and the Dutchman Nikolaas Tinbergen.
Science speaks out! INTERACT bridge the gap between researchers and the public
Science is useless by itself if it doesn’t speak out. INTERACT is doing excellent science, but if it stays within the science community, its science is only of academic interest; communication across sectors is imperative.
Supporting better deployment of the PPN06/20 Social Value Model
The Impact Evaluation Standard framework for social value reporting helps address specific PPN06/20 challenges. Read our overview of how it supports contracting authorities.
Realise more value from your government or utilities operations
Is your business as optimised as it could be? Are your operations as streamlined and as sustainable as possible? It’s a serious question. One that’s well worth dedicating some thought to.