South-east Asia: Nepal has eliminated rubella in a 12 year public health campaign. For a long time, rubella was considered quite harmless: a bit of a fever, some red spots on the body, and after three days, it’s all gone.
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SPIE Medical Imaging 2024: Conference Live Report
Life reporting from SPIE Medical Imaging 2024, San Diego California.
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Nutrition: lower demand despite higher activity
The energy needed by the human body to maintain basic functions has decreased over the last decades. Why is that?
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Reclaim the networks
A couple of days after Twitter was sold, the San Diego Science Writers Association met in a local brewery. The question whether to stay on the platform or not came up and it kept nagging me.
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Can Wikipedia Predict Flu Numbers?
Forecasting the course of an epidemic helps in fighting it. Most predictions are based on current infection numbers. But those can be hard to get. Search patterns and page views can act as substitutes.
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