Behind the Paper
The real stories behind the latest research papers, from conception to publication, the highs and the lows
When two COVID-19 treatments go head-to-head: what NHS data can teach us
During the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians urgently needed treatments for patients sick enough to be admitted to hospital. Among the drugs repurposed for severe COVID-19 were two medicines originally developed for inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis: tocilizumab and sarilumab
Evolving Understanding of What It Takes to Forecast Strong Tropical Cyclones
The wavy air-sea interface plays an important role in energy and momentum fluxes fueling the storms, but the breaking waves are not likely resolvable any time soon by increasing numerical model’s resolution. By coupling a forecasting model to an ocean wave model, marked advances can be achieved.
Why Smarter Cybersecurity Starts with Better Data
Modern AI is only as effective as the data it learns from. In our latest research, we built a realistic end-to-end threat-hunting framework and a large-scale multiclass cybersecurity dataset to help train intelligent intrusion detection systems against today's evolving cyber threats.
"Why study rain where it hardly rains?"
"Why are you interested in precipitation in the Sahara? It hardly rains there!"
This is probably the question I was asked most often while working on this review.
What do individuals believe about the safety of manual therapy?
Our latest qualitative study in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies explores patient beliefs about manual therapy. In this Behind the Paper article, we focus on the theme ‘in safe hands?’ to explore patient concerns about manual therapy and discuss implications for clinical practice.
Beyond the invitation letter: listening to Black women’s experiences of breast screening
Breast screening is sometimes presented as a straightforward decision: an invitation arrives, a woman attends an appointment and has a mammogram. Our research showed that the reality is often more complex.
Plastic debris in Antarctic lakes and soils reveals hidden reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes
Plastic debris in Antarctic environments harbours enriched and distinctive antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements, highlighting plastics as potential reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes
From Reporting Numbers to Using Evidence: Lessons from Somalia’s Health Information System
Every day, healthcare workers generate large amounts of information. They record consultations, vaccinations, antenatal visits, deliveries, disease cases, medicine use and patient outcomes.
