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U.S. News & World Report: Metformin may help young patients with bipolar disorder avoid weight gain
U.S. News & World Report highlighted recent research led by the University of Cincinnati and Northwell Health that found the drug metformin can help prevent or reduce weight gain in youth taking medication to treat bipolar disorder. Medications to treat bipolar disorder, known as second-generation antipsychotics (SGAs), are often effective at helping young patients’ mental…
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Returning Home: On “Made in L.A. 2023”
WE DROVE THREE HOURS from Los Angeles to the remote desert at the edge of California and made our way through the maze of gates and checkpoints to our classroom in a state prison. The students were going to present their final projects for our arts facilitator training. One by one, sometimes in pairs, they…
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Horror, She Wrote: Five Centuries of Haunting Reads by, for, and about Stubborn Women | Arts
“Spooky Season” makes readers hungry for horror — a genre with literary roots in Gothic fiction. In that case, October is a time to highlight women’s writing — as the Gothic is fundamentally a women’s genre. Through Gothic literature, women writers have developed and dominated horror storytelling since the 18th Century to discuss social issues…
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Dispel myths of ‘carb-phobia’ with personalized, plant-centered diabetes nutrition
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Gaza’s broken health-care system is compounding the risk of disease
As physician-scientists who were ourselves children of war, we work to promote high-quality health care in the Middle East and North Africa (see go.nature.com/4oeqich). We are deeply concerned that the destruction of hospitals in Gaza is demolishing the region’s already fragile health-care system, which has been neglected on too many fronts for decades. Competing Interests…
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Africa: include community healers in health policies
Jean Kaseya proposes a self-sustaining model for public health in Africa that could tackle non-infectious diseases and mental-health disorders as well as the infectious diseases that plague the continent (Nature 621, 9; 2023). But to implement this model successfully, policymakers will need to transcend colonial prejudices and cooperate with traditional African healers. Competing Interests The…
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Sudan’s disastrous war — and the science it is imperilling
One April morning, medical student Asjad Yousif Abdalrahman Bushra awoke to the sound of bombs exploding in Khartoum. He was planning to attend a funeral that day and then start preparations for celebrating Eid. But war had erupted between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary force called the Rapid Support Forces. As of 22 September,…
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Nokia Technology Strategy 2030: emerging technology trends and their impact on networks
Press Release Nokia Technology Strategy 2030: emerging technology trends and their impact on networks Nokia’s Technology Strategy 2030 is fundamental to realizing the full potential of AI, cloud and other emerging trends with connectivity at the center enabling the adoption of these technologies Demand on global telecom networks from 2022 to 2030 will grow at…
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What Does Inequity Look Like to a Photographer? Our Young Artists Collective Shows Us.
Where words fall short, art rises. Words often form the foundation for necessary change-making: letters to representatives, petitions, slogans, calls to action. But sometimes, we need more than words to express our hunger for change — that’s when we turn to art, music, movement, and other creative mediums to call for unity and amplify one…
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Garbage in, garbage out: mitigating risks and maximizing benefits of AI in research
Artificial-intelligence models require the vast computing power of supercomputers, such as this one at the University of California, San Diego.Credit: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Science is producing data in amounts so large as to be unfathomable. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly needed to make sense of all this information (see ref. 1 and…