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Also, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is stepping down as executive director, and the interim CEO of the Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers will stay on permanently.
Last modified on Tue 16 Mar 2021 06.14 EDT While most teachers express frustration about the education system in England, with its focus on Sats, GCSEs and league tables, what they don’t usually do is set up their own school instead. But that is exactly what Lucy Stephens did. Stephens had been a primary teacher for six years but grew disillusioned and left. “I was just shoehorning kids through test papers,” she says. “Everything was so competitive. You’d find the headteacher in your room, looking through your books, checking on you. Behaviour managers can rule by fear, the staff as...
Updated / Friday, 19 Feb 2021 10:55 Florin the Labrador was trained to detect prostate cancer in urine samples A dog's nose could hold the key to detecting the most lethal type of prostate cancer, scientists have said. Results from a study involving English charity Medical Detection Dogs could lead to the development of a more sensitive and specific prostate cancer diagnostic method beyond the blood test which is currently used, researchers said. They hope the work can be replicated in a bigger study and eventually result in the production of a "robotic nose" perhaps in the form of a smartph...
A dog’s nose could hold the key to detecting the most lethal type of prostate cancer, scientists have said. Results from a study involving Milton Keynes-based charity Medical Detection Dogs could lead to the development of a more sensitive and specific prostate cancer diagnostic method beyond the blood test which is currently used, researchers said. They hope the work can be replicated in a bigger study and eventually result in the production of a “robotic nose” perhaps in the form of a smartphone app. Florin the Labrador sniffs urine samples (Medical Detection Dogs/PA) Dr Claire Guest,...
A 4-year-old Labrador and a 7-year-old Vizsla were trained to detect the odor of prostate cancer in urine samples collected from patients with the disease, including Gleason 9 prostate cancer -- the most lethal tumors that would benefit the most from early detection. Results showed the dogs correctly identified positive samples 71% of the time, and correctly ignored negative samples including those with other diseases 70% to 76% of the time. The dogs also correctly identified when 73% of blinded patient samples did not have the disease, which compares favorably to the most commonly used prost...