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UK’s Johnson to unveil road map for exiting virus lockdown UK’s Johnson to unveil road map for exiting virus lockdown Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson joins in the applause on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street in London during the weekly “Clap for our Carers” Thursday, May 7, 2020. The …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Men pose more risk to other road users than women do and they are more likely to drive more dangerous vehicles, reveals the first study of its kind, published online in the journal Injury Prevention. The findings prompt the researchers to suggest that greater gender equity …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain At the beginning of March the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced that the last Ebola patient had been discharged from a treatment centre. The country has been in the grip of an Ebola outbreak since August 2018. More than 3,300 cases were …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain City design combining more public transport and rail networks with smaller, low speed blocks are the best to reduce road transport injuries, according to a new global study co-authored by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The findings are published in The Lancet …

Tiffany Lyle, assistant professor of veterinary anatomic pathology at Purdue University, led research that has provided the first comprehensive characterization of both the blood-brain and blood-tumor barriers in brain metastases of lung cancer, which will serve as a road map for treatment development. Credit: Purdue University/Rebecca Wilcox The human brain …

Photo: Plan Shoot/Imazins, Getty Images Music may be just what you need to stick with an exercise program—and picking the right tunes could even improve performance. Federal exercise guidelines recommend people get at least two and a half hours of moderate-intensity aerobic activity, or 75 minutes of vigorous activity, each …

The ability of cataract surgery to restore sight is well known. People say they’re stunned by the vibrancy of color after surgery and the improvement in night vision. Some can even reduce their reliance on glasses. But can you quantify that improved quality of vision? To find out, researchers in …

Allen Institute Scientist Rebecca Hodge examines a slice of human brain. This is one of several brain samples used in a comparison study of human and mouse brain cell types. Credit: Allen Institute A new study from the Allen Institute for Brain Science has written the most detailed “parts list” …