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Beyond the Headlines: Ensuring Integrity While Advancing Alzheimer’s Research
How do we ensure scientific integrity while advancing urgently needed treatments? Sensationalized media narratives aren’t the answer. While accountability is essential, we must also recognize the groundbreaking research that brings us closer to real solutions for Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
STIM-HD: Exploring Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation for Sarcopenia in Haemodialysis Patients
Chronic Kidney Disease affects 10-12% of UK adults and may necessitate starting dialysis, impacting wellbeing and daily life. Consequently, dialysis patients can also experience sarcopenia. With exercise often impractical, could a simple, accessible device help reverse muscle loss?
Health: It's on the government
UHC Day 2024 is two weeks away. This year, we're calling on decision makers around the world to protect people from financial hardship when accessing health services. Because when populations are healthy, communities and economies thrive.
“Negative” and “null” results — your voice is needed
We’re asking: what are your opinions about sharing “null” or “negative” results?
Closing the Breastfeeding Gap through a Health System that Promotes, Protects, and Supports Breastfeeding in Mexico
For World Breastfeeding Week 2024, themed “Closing the Gap: Breastfeeding Support for All”, it is crucial to highlight breastfeeding and its challenges. In Mexico, breastfeeding urgently needs attention. Improving the health system and training health professionals in breastfeeding are key areas.
SARS-CoV-2 entry into human and animal host cells: Should we pay attention just to the ACE2 receptor?
This commentary addresses an interesting article focused on a machine learning-based approach, which was successfully employed to predict mammalian hosts' susceptibility to severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, along with the zoonotic risk posed by them [1].
