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Parents tend to suicide in first years after child’s cancer diagnosis

Parents tend to suicide in first years after child’s cancer diagnosis

However, parents are not more likely to die by suicide, finds study of parents in Denmark and Sweden Parents who have a child with cancer are more likely to attempt suicide during the first years after diagnosis, according to a new study conducted by Qianwei Liu of Southern Medical University, China, and colleagues, published January 16th in the open access journal PLOS … Read more

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