Opening any new North Sea oil and gas fields is incompatible with achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals of limiting warming to 1.5°C or holding warming to “well below 2°C” relative to preindustrial levels, finds a new report published by UCL academics.

About The Study: The findings of this cross-sectional study suggest substantial cost shifting in veterans’ surgical care from Medicare Advantage to Veterans Health Administration among high-veteran Medicare Advantage plans, underscoring the urgent need for policy reforms to improve the efficiency of veterans’ care.

Children in rural Australia are missing out on critical early health supports, with limited access to allied health services putting them at greater risk of lifelong developmental challenges. Now, new research from the University of South Australia shows that local communities hold the key to improving health outcomes for Aussie bush kids.

In a new publication in PLOS Digital Health, experts in bioethics and law call for immediate standardization of methods for collection of race and ethnicity data, and for developers to warranty race and ethnicity data quality in medical AI systems. The research synthesizes concerns about why patient race data in EHRs may not be accurate, identifies best practices for healthcare systems and medical AI researchers to improve data accuracy, and provides a new template for medical AI developers to transparently warrant the quality of their race and ethnicity data