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Change is afoot at Marin Shakespeare Company. And a big catalyst of that change is the introduction of a new artistic director, Jon Tracy.

Objectives To evaluate whether a multimodal intervention in general practice reduces the proportion of second line antibiotic prescriptions and the overall proportion of antibiotic prescriptions for uncomplicated urinary tract infections in women. Design Parallel, cluster randomised, controlled trial. Setting General practices in five regions in Germany. Data were collected between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022. Participants General practitioners from 128 randomly assigned practices. Interventi...

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News SiFi Networks, the company behind the build, said the fiber network will be completed at no cost or risk to taxpayers, according to a statement from the company. More than 50,000 residents, businesses, and institutions will be connected to high-speed internet when a new $70 million privately-funded open access network project is completed in…

Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of pyrotinib (an irreversible pan-HER (human epidermal growth factor receptor) inhibitor), trastuzumab, and docetaxel compared with placebo, trastuzumab, and docetaxel for untreated HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer. Design Randomised, double blind, placebo controlled, multicentre, phase 3 trial. Setting 40 centres in China between 6 May 2019 and 17 January 2022. Participants 590 female patients (median age 52 (interquartile range 46-58) years) wi...

Aboitiz Power Corporation (AboitizPower), through its subsidiary Adventenergy Inc. (ADVENT), recently secured a long-term retail energy supply deal with WM Shopping Center Management Inc. (WMSCMI) — the developer of the WalterMart community mall chain — to power 26 of its facilities spread around Luzon. The partnership between AboitizPower and WMSCMI began in 2017 when the

Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News   New Rochelle, NY, September 10, 2013—Use of stimulant medications to treat Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents has increased significantly over the past several years. This trend toward increased use of prescription stimulants extends beyond ADHD to other types of neuropsychiatric disorders…

Although the past two decades have produced exciting discoveries in the genetics and pathology of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), progress in developing an effective therapy remains slow. This review summarizes the critical discoveries and outlines the advances in disease characterization, diagnosis, imaging, and biomarkers, along with the current status of approaches to ALS care and treatment. Additional knowledge of the factors driving disease progression and heterogeneity will hopefully ...

Open access notables Its always a special pleasure to note an article including Skeptical Sciences founder John Cook in the author roster. Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy includes not only Cook as a collaborator but also a cast of other familiar authorities on human cognition in connection with climate science, in particlar how our mental equipment struggles with following a continuous thread of truth through a tangled knot of disconnected confusion in the form of mi...

The Ames Repair Café, a volunteer-driven initiative in partnership with the City of Ames and the Ames Public Library, brought sustainable services to Iowa State on Tuesday evening in collaboration with Open Access Week. Parks Library worked alongside the Ames Repair Café, the department of industrial design and the Office of Sustainability to host the...