The Dram/Zhangmu Border Crossing is Re-Opened

The  Dram/Zhangmu Border Crossing  is Re-Opened

Great Tibet Tour is excited to announce that Dram/Zhangmu border has reopened for tourists in Sept and now tourists can choose to enter Tibet either through Dram or Kyirong. According to China Tibet News at 10:00 on September 1, the Dram/Zhangmu border in Shigatse City, Tibet was officially re-opened for tourists. The Dram/Zhangmu border is … Read more

Few eligible patients get access to publicly funded weight management programs

Few eligible patients get access to publicly funded weight management programs

Primary care data on more than 1.8 million adults with overweight or obesity found that only about 3 percent were referred to weight management interventions. Of the more than 1.8 million adults in England with a recorded diagnosis of overweight or obesity, only 3 percent are referred to publicly funded weight management programs, according to … Read more

Mechanism underlying bacterial resistance to the antibiotic albicidin revealed

Mechanism underlying bacterial resistance to the antibiotic albicidin revealed

New study underscores the growing threat of antibiotic resistance in healthcare A new analysis shows that infectious bacteria exposed to the antibiotic albicidin rapidly develop up to a 1,000-fold increase in resistance via a gene amplification mechanism. Mareike Saathoff of Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, and colleagues present these findings August 10th in the open access journal PLOS Biology. Bacterial resistance … Read more

WHO’s Shocking Revelation: 2.5 Million Lives Lost! The Urgent Call to Save Our Children!

WHO’s Shocking Revelation: 2.5 Million Lives Lost! The Urgent Call to Save Our Children!

🌊🚨🏊‍♂️ Drowning Prevention Day 2023 🏊‍♀️🚨🌊 Prepare to be Stunned! The World Health Organization (WHO) just dropped a bombshell, revealing that drowning is a deadly public health crisis sweeping the globe. Over 2.5 million precious lives have been lost in the last decade alone, and the most heartbreaking part? A staggering 90% of these tragic … Read more

UK Biobank Study Reveals Modest Links Between Systemic Inflammation and Future Dementia Risk

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A study of data from about 500,000 people in the UK Biobank has uncovered small but statistically significant associations between signs of systemic inflammation and later risk of dementia. Dr. Krisztina Mekli of The University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on July 19, 2023. Millions of people around … Read more

Non-native English speaker in science has hard time to thrive, study finds

Estimated disadvantages for non-native English speakers when conducting different scientific activities. Credit: Amano T et al., 2023, PLOS Biology, CC-BY 4.0

English serves as a convenient, common language for science. However, this practice poses insurmountable barriers to those whose first language is not English — the majority of people around the world. According to research published on July 18th in the open access journal PLOS Biology, led by Dr. Tatsuya Amano at the University of Queensland, Australia, the … Read more