Revealed: Research funders suppress nutrition, sexual health, physical activity and substance use results
A survey of public-health researchers has found numerous instances of trial results being suppressed on topics such as nutrition, sexual health, physical activity and substance use, with 18 per cent of respondents reporting that they had, on at least one occasion, felt pressured by funders to delay reporting, alter or...
Africa’s first youth games raise hopes the continent is getting ready to host Olympic Games
For decades, African athletes have travelled all over the world to take part in the Olympic Games. At the recent Tokyo Games, they took home gold, silver and bronze medals. And yet Africa has never hosted the Games, and some people are asking what it would take for the Olympics to be held on...
Terrorism: Taliban power grab in Afghanistan raises Islamist insurgency worries and fears in Africa
The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan has taken the world by surprise. In Africa, it compounds the worry and fear in countries struggling to crush Islamist insurgencies. For over a decade now, there’s been a surge in the activities of extremist groups in East and West Africa, the Sahel...
Martin Odegaard transfer deal from Real Madrid to Arsenal sealed, Aaron Ramsdale loading…
Real Madrid have reached an agreement with Arsenal to sign Martine Odegaard for a reported fee of €40 million (£34 million/$46.5 million) and the players was expected in London today (Thursday) to put pen to paper, according to reports in England and Spain. At the same time Arsenal is said...
Bleak future: Biodiversity is not in decline, what’s changing rapidly are ecosystems
In June 2018, 180 cars fanned out across Denmark and parts of Germany on a grand insect hunt. Armed with white, funnel-shaped nets mounted on their car roofs, enthusiastic citizen naturalists roamed through cities, farmlands, grasslands, wetlands and forests. The drivers sent the haul from their ‘InsectMobiles’ to scientists at...
Ethiopia detains Tigrayan children for ‘supporting’ rebels against government
Young children among those held amid a new wave of detentions of ethnic Tigrayans suspected of supporting Tigray forces in Ethiopia’s growing war, one detainee says, while witnesses and a human rights watchdog describe fresh disappearances in recent weeks. In an interview with The Associated Press on a hidden phone,...
Sports research shows female athletes twice more likely to develop concussions than male counterparts
Liz Williams was standing pitch-side at a women’s rugby match and she did not like what she was seeing. Williams, who researches forensic biomechanics at Swansea University, UK, had equipped some of the players with a mouth-guard that contained a sensor to measure the speed of head movement. She wanted...
US gun violence: Counselling ties high suicide incidence to easy firearm access in homes
The risk of death by suicide in the United States is higher when guns are easily accessible in a home, research finds. However, keeping firearms unloaded and locked away in homes resulted in a decreased suicide and homicide incidence in the past five years, according to the findings. This was...
US grapples with drug overreliance syndrome as drug makers fight for slice of the lucrative market
The US has made strides in addressing polypharmacy but the momentum is yet to pick to save the country from overmedication. One of the achievements is the Age-Friendly Health Systems programme, developed in 2017, in which hospitals and medical care settings agree to adhere by the 4Ms – a set...
Uganda agrees to host 2000 Afghan refugees fleeing new Taliban Islamist regime
Uganda said on Tuesday it had agreed to a request from the United States to take in temporarily 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan fleeing after the Taliban takeover. The East African nation has a long experience of hosting people escaping conflict and currently hosts about 1.4 million refugees from South Sudan,...
