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The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January. Today, I asked Bjoern Brembs to answer a few questions.

An open-letter of complaint to the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan chanm@who.int Cc:        The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, www-admin@nhlw.go.jp              Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan, shiozaki@y-shiozaki.or.jp              Thomas Frieden, Director CDC, tomfrieden@cdc.gov  Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stuart McCutcheon, The University of Auckland, s.mccutcheon@auckland,ac.nz   From: Sin&helli...

Webometrics mid-year update of the world university rankings for 2023, reveals that University of Cape Town is once again at the top.

In 2017, Pravin Gordhan urged South Africa to ‘join the dots’ between corruption and the Zuma administration. John Matisonn joins those dots in this eight-part series. In this instalment, he borrows the phrase of James Carville, who coined the US election theme, ‘It’s the economy, stupid’, and...

This paper aims to assess the seismic performance of glazed facade systems, widely adopted in modern buildings, focusing on point fixed glass facade systems (PFGFSs), also referred to as “spider glazing”.

Objective To examine the proportion of healthcare visits are delivered by nurse practitioners and physician assistants versus physicians and how this has changed over time and by clinical setting, diagnosis, and patient demographics. Design Cross-sectional time series study. Setting National data from the traditional Medicare insurance program in the USA. Participants Of people using Medicare (ie, those older than 65 years, permanently disabled, and people with end stage renal disease), a 20% ra...

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of combining mirtazapine with serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants for treatment resistant depression in primary care. Design Two parallel group multicentre phase III randomised placebo controlled trial. Setting 106 general practices in four UK sites; Bristol, Exeter, Hull, and Keele/North Staffs, August 2013 to October 2015. Participants 480 adults aged 18 or more years who s...

The proportion of US overdose deaths involving both fentanyl and stimulants has increased more than 50-fold since 2010. By 2021, stimulants (such as cocaine and methamphetamine) had become the most common drug class found in fentanyl-involved overdoses in every US state. This rise in fentanyl/stimulant fatalities constitutes the ‘fourth wave’ in the US’s long-running opioid overdose crisis.

Do Black Americans Negotiate Less Than Other Groups? 5 Things To Know

[See related article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.221051][1] KEY POINTS New research in this issue of CMAJ draws attention to rising rates of hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Canada, a finding that should raise alarm within health care systems.[1][2