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Keeping your teeth for life: Why use a disclosing agent?

Dr. Neha Dixit and Dr. Marcel Donnet argue that you can’t ignore what you see when it comes to keeping your teeth for life. Particular focus is given to Guided Biofilm Therapy and the use of a disclosing agent.
Image showing NO-producing neurons (white) interacting with other key neuronal populations shaping minipuberty in the hypothalamus (green: gonadotropin-releasing hormone neurons (GnRH), red: estrogen receptor-alpha expressing neurons (Erα)) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.202 2.11.040, minipuberty

The miniNO project: Helping to minimize risks of premature births

Associative mechanisms linking a defective minipuberty to the appearance of mental and non-mental disorders: infantile NO replenishment as a new therapeutic possibility.
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Zero food waste city 2049: Identifying barriers to transition pathways

An Urban Living Lab in the UK have tested newly integrated systems approaches and valuation methods to understand how to reduce the city’s food waste.
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Using of opioids for chronic pain: Controversies, guidelines, research needs

First in a series of five articles, Norm Buckley and Jason Busse explore the trials and tribulations associated with using opioids for chronic pain, particularly in Canada.
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How can the health sector support Canada’s net-zero ambition?

Fiona A. Miller, Professor & Director at the Centre for Sustainable Health Systems, University of Toronto in Canada, explores how the health sector supports Canada’s net-zero ambition.
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The Pinpoint Test: Harnessing the power of AI in cancer diagnostics

Suspected cancer patients in England are currently referred to the NHS urgent cancer referral pathway, known as the ‘2-week wait’ (2WW). It guarantees that suspected cancer patients can see a specialist in Secondary Care within 14 days of referral.
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Advancements in how we identify and treat hypoxic cancers

Cancers that are starved of oxygen, otherwise known as hypoxic cancers, are generally difficult to identify – but medical imaging has taken a new step with the MR-Linac scanner.
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Tackling invisible careers: How to expand career options for all students

As young people start to explore their career options, it’s not uncommon for them to feel unsure about what they want to do.

Demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market

Ragui Assaad, Professor from Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, explores the upcoming resumption of demographic pressures on the Egyptian labour market and what can be done about it.
Delivering a resilient and sustainable electricity supply for the UK's data centres

Delivering a resilient and sustainable electricity supply for the UK’s data centres

Antony White, Sector Lead for UK Power Networks Services, discusses the challenges that data centres face meeting capacity requirements, ensuring a resilient energy supply and balancing sustainability pressures.
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Estimates suggest population growth rate to peak at 8.6 billion

A new projection of the population growth rate highlights that the world’s population could peak at 8.5 billion people by 2050, and decline to 7 billion in 2100.
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Paediatric autism communication therapy improved long-term child outcomes

Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy is currently the only scientifically evidenced early social communication intervention to demonstrate long-term improved child social communication outcomes into middle childhood Despite Autism being an enduring condition affecting 2% of people globally, evidenced intervention to improve the developmental impairments is limited. Paediatric Autism Communication Therapy (PACT)...
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Making the UK a lung research superpower will save lives

Dr Samantha Walker, Director of Research and Innovation at Asthma + Lung UK, explains why prioritising lung research is the best way to improve the nation’s health.
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How businesses can address the lack of gender diversity in senior roles

Gender diversity in senior roles is a topic of increasing importance in the business world, with women still significantly underrepresented in leadership positions.
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The importance of address validation for government agencies

Address validation plays a crucial role in data quality for many functions in municipal, state, and federal agencies.

Policy recommendations for Japan towards achieving labour CRS/ RBC

The government’s current policy can be improved. Therefore, it is an urgent task to create an overarching policy vision to help Japan on its journey towards Labour CSR/RBC.
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Getting enough sleep is vital for healthy ageing

Dr Deborah Lee from Dr Fox Online Pharmacy analyses insomnia in the UK and why getting enough sleep is vital for healthy ageing.
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Overcoming global inequities in cognitive healthcare to combat dementia

CEO of ViewMind Inc, Mark Edwards, discusses overcoming global inequities in cognitive healthcare to combat the dementia epidemic.
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Psychedelic therapies are returning to psychiatry

Professor Erika Dyck, Canada Research Chair in History of Health & Social Justice at the University of Saskatchewan, looks to psychedelic therapies outside the pharmaceutical industry to aid mental illness.
Pregnant woman taking a vaccination against covid-19 virus during pandemic in medical clinic office.

Could a global maternal Strep B vaccination program save lives?

A global maternal Strep B vaccination program could save millions in lives and healthcare costs.

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