Equitable access to high-cost pharmaceuticals
""New book explores the issue of high cost medicines across Europe and Australasia with contributions from 30 experts worldwide
View ArticleNationwide unique study: New data from the RKI on young people’s health and...
How many young people smoke and how many continue to do so into young adulthood? How many overweight children are still overweight more than ten years later? What developments occur in mental health...
View ArticleDie vergessenen Ligen – Studie untersucht Insolvenzen im deutschen Fußball
Diese Zahl irritiert: 109 deutsche Fußballclubs der Ligen eins bis fünf haben in den vergangenen 21 Jahren einen Insolvenzantrag gestellt. Sechs Kultvereine waren es allein im Jahr 2017; gestern...
View ArticleSexual Harassment Statistics: Do the Numbers Reveal the True Extent of the...
A new article addresses the statistics of sexual harassment and questions how prevalent it is. The Statistics Views article notes that surveys indicate that if you’re a woman, you have about a 3 in 5...
View ArticleLand under water — documenting hydropower's land use impacts
One of the key ways to combat global climate change is to boost the world’s use of renewable energy. But even green energy has its environmental costs. A new approach describes just how hydropower...
View ArticleSubstantial flood and landslide damage in Switzerland 2017: Eight deaths and...
Flooding, landslides, debris flows, rockfall and rock avalanches in Switzerland in 2017 caused damage totalling around CHF 170 million. This is the highest amount since 2007. Overland flow caused...
View ArticleOU inaugural to ask why less than 10% of maths professors are women?
22/05/2018, When Professor June Barrow-Green delivers her OU inaugural lecture on Tuesday 22 May, she will call it: “He denies the very existence of a woman mathematician”. The quote is from the famous...
View ArticleNeighbourhood wellbeing and a sense of community is at the heart of a good...
A sense of wellbeing and a thriving community is key to a happy neighbourhood according to housing researchers, who looked at the relationship between the experience of the home and wellbeing.
View ArticleSymposium: Securing Our Natural Environment for Future Generations
23/05/2018 — 24/05/2018, This joint meeting of the British Ecological Society and UK’s Statutory Nature Conservation agencies will bring together policy officials, practitioners, natural and social...
View ArticleInside Science: The Science of Sneakers: High-Tops vs. Low-Tops
In a new story for the Inside Science News Service, freelance journalist Marcus Woo explores the falling popularity of high-top basketball shoes and how researchers and other experts think the change...
View ArticleGood motor skills may enhance reading skills in obese children
Excess body weight has been linked to poor academic performance in children in several previous studies. A new Finnish study now shows that a high body fat percentage is associated with poor reading...
View ArticleWhy it doesn’t pay to be just nice – you also need to be intelligent
New research has revealed how people’s intelligence, rather than their personality traits, leads to success.
View ArticleSupporting emerging talent from across the world
Leicester is to host two Commonwealth Rutherford Fellows researching two projects: • Understanding the factors that protect vulnerable children • Exploring the escape of Africans enslaved within Africa...
View ArticleChild sex abuse much greater than believed with more women committing...
Researchers at the University of Huddersfield undertook the research on behalf of Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA)
View ArticleThere is gold in big data, but there are not enough gold miners
The promise of big data has been on the horizon of the field of social sciences for years, but so far nobody has been able to deliver on this promise. In his inaugural lecture on 22 March, Professor...
View ArticleRacial Disparities in HIV Control Persist Despite Equal Access to Care
Researchers report that racial disparities in HIV control (viral load) exist even when patients have equal access to care, as shown in a study of black and white HIV-infected patients treated in the...
View ArticleScience journalists, submit your session proposals for WCSJ2019 in Lausanne!
World Conference of Science Journalists 2019 Programme Committee encourages science journalists from all over the world, or indeed anyone with an interest in improving the quality of science...
View Article'Now is the time to reduce our water footprint', World Water Day
Saving water is, all too often, about reducing the time you spend in the shower or about choosing another programme on your washing machine. The real change, however, implies a change in lifestyle:...
View ArticleTransparente IT-Produktion für digitale Souveränität
Ob Automobil-, Energie- oder Finanzsektor: Informationstechnik durchdringt zunehmend alle Bereiche des Lebens. Gleichzeitig werden Sicherheitslücken, die sich durch globalisierte Produktionsketten von...
View ArticleTransparent IT Production for Digital Sovereignty
Whether in the automotive, the energy or the financial sector: information technology is increasingly penetrating all aspects of life. At the same time, security gaps in closed hardware and software...
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