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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…
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The anthropogenic salt cycle
Abstract Increasing salt production and use is shifting the natural balances of salt ions across Earth systems, causing interrelated effects across biophysical systems collectively known as freshwater salinization syndrome. In this Review, we conceptualize the natural salt cycle and synthesize increasing global trends of salt production and riverine salt concentrations and fluxes. The natural salt cycle…
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Comparison of the tidal volume by the recruitment maneuver combined with positive end-expiratory pressure for mechanically ventilated children
Abstract The recruitment maneuver (RM) combined with PEEP to prevent atelectasis have beneficial effects. However, the change in tidal volume (VT) due to RM combined with PEEP in pediatric patients during the induction of general anesthesia is unknown. Therefore, we assessed the effects of RM combined with PEEP on VT. Pediatric patients were divided into…
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‘Christmas creep’: Why holiday candy hits shelves so early
Candy canes, marshmallow Santas and gelt go on sale as soon as Halloween is over – sometimes earlier. This ‘Christmas creep’ is starting sooner and sooner. For retailers of all types, the winter holidays are the most wonderful time of year. In 2023 alone, the National Retail Federation (NRF) expects shoppers will spend around $900…