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Using health facility deaths to estimate population causes of neonatal and child mortality in four African countries
Verbal autopsy is the main method used in countries with weak civil registration systems for estimating community causes of neonatal…
Child maltreatment and cardiovascular disease: quantifying mediation pathways using UK Biobank
Child maltreatment is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), but mediation pathways have not been fully elucidated. The aim of the…
COVID-19: Tradeoffs between economics and public health
A new study uses a variety of data on consumer and business activity to tackle that question, measuring 26 types…
Only 1 in 3 COVID-19 research authors are women, and even fewer are senior authors
Women make up only a third of all authors who have published research on COVID-19 since the beginning of the…
An aspirin a day keeps the bowel doctor away
A regular dose of aspirin to reduce the risk of inherited bowel cancer lasts at least 10 years after stopping…
Siblings of infants who have died suddenly and unexpectedly at 10-fold risk of same death
The siblings of infants who have died suddenly and unexpectedly run 10 times the risk of dying in the same…
237+ million medication errors made every year in England
More than 237 million medication errors are made every year in England, the avoidable consequences of which cost the NHS…
Discovering how the brain works through computation
Researchers propose a new computational system to expand the understanding of the brain at an intermediate level, between neurons and…