Rehabilitation and economic recovery for torture survivors
Torture is a practice that not only terrorizes individuals and society, but also imposes a long-term economic burden on its victims and their… Read more »
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Scotland’s contribution to the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Highlights from the SULSA meeting
Resistance to the antimicrobials we use to control potentially deadly infections caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites has become a… Read more »
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The vitamin D paradox in Black Americans
According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a paradox exists in which, despite markedly low (or “deficient”) measures… Read more »
E-cigarettes affect lung biology, even in those who’ve never smoked
Research into the potential health effects of e-cigarettes has so far focused on in vitro studies or on users who are ex-cigarette… Read more »
Evolution and Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder which persists despite its disadvantagous effects. Here, Niladri Banerjee… Read more »
The importance of community commitment to tsetse control
A tsetse control project conducted in Burkina Faso reveals the importance of the engagement of local communities.
Increasing the uptake of type 2 diabetes screening
With type 2 diabetes becoming more prevalent worldwide, Global Health Research and Policy has recently published an article… Read more »
Dystonia – a heterogeneous clinical and treatment landscape
Dystonia is a little known syndrome which is estimated to affect at least 70,000 people in the UK. For Dystonia Awareness Week (5… Read more »
NTDs, violent conflicts, and the role of military in global health
Krisztian Magori summarizes two recent papers by Peter Hotez and his coauthors on the potential link between violent conflict and… Read more »
Putting claims about mindfulness meditation to the strongest test
Mindfulness meditation has become a mainstream technique in the toolkit of psychologists, but its efficacy in non-clinical… Read more »