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News at a glance: Diphtheria vaccine shortage, prisoner release, and iNaturalist ’s growth
CONSERVATION
Popular biodiversity app to expand
The nonprofit that runs iNaturalist, a popular app and website for identifying species, has received a $10 million grant to expand. The funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, announced last week, will allow iNaturalist—whose website is one of the largest generators of crowd-sourced species-occurrence data—to add users, technology, and observations to inform conservation. iNaturalist hopes to grow in nature-rich parts of the world, such as Asia and South America, which have fewer users uploading data. Since iNaturalist’s founding in 2008, the ...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 21, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
News at a glance: Diphtheria treatment shortage, prisoner release, and iNaturalist ’s growth
CONSERVATION
Popular biodiversity app to expand
The nonprofit that runs iNaturalist, a popular app and website for identifying species, has received a $10 million grant to expand. The funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, announced last week, will allow iNaturalist—whose website is one of the largest generators of crowd-sourced species-occurrence data—to add users, technology, and observations to inform conservation. iNaturalist hopes to grow in nature-rich parts of the world, such as Asia and South America, which have fewer users uploading data. Since iNaturalist’s founding in 2008, the ...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Biden HHS Hits Wuhan Lab With 10-Year Funding Ban Amid Mounting Evidence Of Leak
The Biden administration's Department of Health and Human Services announced on Wednesday that it has officially banned the Wuhan Institute of Virology from receiving US funding for a decade, based on mounting…#bidenhhshits #wuhanlab #xavierbecerra #wiv #yanyiwang #anthonyfauci #nypost #hhs #nih #coronavirus
Source: Reuters: Health - September 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Protocol of a randomised controlled phase II clinical trial investigating PREoperative endoscopic injection of BOTulinum toxin into the sphincter of Oddi to reduce bile leakage after hepatic resection: the PREBOT-II trial
Introduction
Bile leakage represents a major cause of morbidity following hepatic resection. Although most patients can be managed non-operatively, this complication requires diagnostics and therapeutic interventions. Preoperative endoscopic injection of botulinum toxin (BTX) into the sphincter of Oddi represents an innovative approach to prevent bile leakage. The aim of the PREBOT-II trial is to generate the first randomised controlled trial data on the safety, feasibility and efficacy of preoperative endoscopic BTX injection into the sphincter of Oddi to prevent bile leakage following hepatic resection.
Methods and anal...
Source: BMJ Open - September 20, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mack, C. E., Klaiber, U., Sauer, P., Kohlhas, L., Baumann, L., Martin, E., Mehrabi, A., Buchler, M. W., Hackert, T. Tags: Open access, Surgery Source Type: research
Climate activists block Federal Reserve bank, calling for end to fossil fuel funding
One day after the largest climate march since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, hundreds of climate activists blockaded the Federal Reserve Bank in New York to call for an end to funding for coal, oil and gas, with police making scores of arrests. “Fossil fuel companies … wouldn’t be able to…#federalreservebank #alicénascimento #unitednational #unga #fossilfuels #renatapumarol #climatedefenders #newyorks #zuccottipark #manhattan
Source: Reuters: Health - September 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
A mussel-inspired glue for more sustainable sticking
In this episode:00:46 A sustainably-sourced, super-strong adhesiveThe modern world is held together by adhesives, but these fossil-fuel derived materials come at an environmental cost. To overcome this, a team have developed a soya-oil based adhesive, which also takes inspiration from the proteins that marine animals like mussels use to stick firmly to rocks. The researchers say their glue is strong, reversible, and less carbon intensive to produce than existing adhesives.Research article: Westerman et al.07:43 Research HighlightsWhy chemicals derived from wood could be sustainable alternatives to a common plastic building...
Source: Nature Podcast - September 13, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
A Matter of Facts — September 2023
sramashwarSeptember 11, 2023From Our PresidentFor those of us involved in the close-knit community field of sexual and reproductive health and rights, conferences are an opportunity to come together as a movement. Convening regularly with colleagues and collaborators, partners and peers from around the world provides us with important insights and chances to connect. To break bread, build bridges and even to let loose.The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 caused event after event to be canceled or postponed. It ’s wonderful to see in-person meetings and events returning. It’s also refreshing to see that hybrid events continue ...
Source: The Guttmacher Institute - September 11, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: sramashwar Source Type: news
U.S. cancels program aimed at identifying potential pandemic viruses
In what many see as fallout from the concern that researchers studying bat viruses may have triggered the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has prematurely ended a $125 million program aimed at identifying viruses in animals that might harm humans.
USAID launched the program, known as the Discovery & Exploration of Emerging Pathogens – Viral Zoonoses (DEEP VZN), in October 2021. It tapped the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health at Washington State University (WSU) to lead a consortium that planned to work in up to 12 foreign countries over 5 years. Goals included trainin...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 8, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
U.S. bets it can drill for climate-friendly hydrogen —just like oil
A dark horse concept in the race to develop clean and sustainable energy sources is getting its first major investment from the U.S. government. Today, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), the high-risk, high-reward arm of the Department of Energy (DOE),
announced it would fund $20 million in grants
to advance technologies for extracting clean-burning hydrogen from deep rocks. At the moment, all of the world’s hydrogen is manufactured industrially. But some researchers have concluded that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Earth
harbors vast deposits of the gas
that could be tapped like oilâ€...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 7, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The Danger of ‘Invisible’ Biolabs Across the U.S.
Recently, many California residents were disturbed to learn that a small, privately-operated bio lab in the Central Valley town of Reedley was shut down by Fresno County Department of Public Health officials after they found that it had been improperly managing almost 1,000 laboratory mice and samples of infectious diseases including COVID-19, rubella, malaria, dengue, chlamydia, hepatitis, and HIV. The lab was registered to a company called Prestige Biotech that sold a variety of medical testing kits, including for pregnancy and COVID-19, and it was likely storing disease samples for the purpose of developing and validati...
Source: TIME: Health - August 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Greene, Jassi Pannu and Allison Berke Tags: Uncategorized Science Source Type: news
Fatalities in Oil and Gas Extraction Database, an Industry-Specific Worker Fatality Surveillance System - United States, 2014-2019
This report describes the creation of the Fatalities in Oil and Gas Extraction (FOG) database, presents initial findings from the first 6 years of data collection (2014-2019), highlights ways that FOG data have been used, and describes the benefits and challenges of maintaining the surveillance system.PERIOD COVERED: 2014-2019.DESCRIPTION OF SYSTEM: In 2013, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) created the FOG database, a surveillance system comprising an industry-specific worker fatality database. NIOSH researchers worked with OGE partners to establish inclusion criteria for the database and d...
Source: MMWR Surveill Summ - August 29, 2023 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Kaitlin C Wingate Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas Ryan Hill Sophia Ridl Kyla Hagan-Haynes Source Type: research
