Medicine & Health
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2-Oct-2025
Knee-d for excellence: New regional training hub keeps surgeons sharp for ageing population
SingHealthBusiness Announcement
Singapore General Hospital (SGH) has announced the launch of a Centre of Excellence (CoE) for robotic-assisted surgery, ensuring orthopaedic surgeons are equipped with knowledge of emerging technologies as the population ages and surgical needs evolve.
2-Oct-2025
Long-term biochar use boosts soil health and soybean yields, study finds
Biochar Editorial Office, Shenyang Agricultural UniversityPeer-Reviewed Publication
A decade-long field study has revealed that biochar, a charcoal-like material made from plant residues, can significantly improve soil quality and boost soybean production in continuous cropping systems. The findings provide new evidence that biochar could be a powerful tool for making agriculture more sustainable.
- Journal
- Biochar
2-Oct-2025
The Lancet: Billions lack access to healthy diets as food systems drive climate and health crises, but sustainable, equitable solutions are within reach, says new EAT-Lancet report
The LancetPeer-Reviewed Publication
Food systems are key drivers of the world’s most urgent challenges, from chronic diseases and rising inequality to accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss, according to the 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy, Sustainable, and Just Food Systems. The new report finds that while the world produces enough food calories for everyone, nearly 3.7 billion people are without access to a healthy diet, meaningful wages, or a clean environment. At the same time, food production is a significant contributor to environmental degradation, accounting for nearly 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions and pushing the transgression of the planetary boundaries (climate change, biodiversity loss, land use change, freshwater consumption, nutrient pollution, and novel entities such as pesticides and antibiotics). This crisis of inequity and environmental harm threatens human health and the resilience of planet Earth.
- Journal
- The Lancet
2-Oct-2025
Countries with highest reported levels of hearing loss have lowest use of hearing aids
BMJ GroupPeer-Reviewed Publication
Countries with the highest reported levels of hearing loss also have the lowest reported use of hearing aids, finds international research published in the open access journal BMJ Global Health.
- Journal
- BMJ Global Health
2-Oct-2025
Early medical abortion at home up to 12 weeks is safe, effective, and comparable to hospital care
BMJ GroupPeer-Reviewed Publication
Early medical abortion at home up to 12 weeks of pregnancy is safe, effective, and comparable to hospital care, finds a 5 year review of cases in Scotland, where this timeframe is legally permitted, and published online in the journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health.
- Journal
- BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health
2-Oct-2025
People with Down syndrome have early neuroinflammation
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers at the University of São Paulo identify a new factor that explains the high prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in older people with Down syndrome. The discovery paves the way for disease prevention strategies in this population.
- Journal
- Alzheimer’s & Dementia
- Funder
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo