By Simon Kolstoe, Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
How is it possible to spend tens of billions of dollars developing drugs to treat a serious disease that affects millions of people, and yet end up with something that does not work? This is a mystery that has bedevilled Alzheimer’s research for years.
A new review of the evidence has concluded that the leading class of Alzheimer’s drugs “probably…
(Full Story)
|
By Lou Harvey, Associate Professor of Education, University of Leeds
Chris Bailey, Senior Lecturer in Education, Sheffield Hallam University
The idea of the “autism spectrum” is widely used in diagnosis, education and public discussion. First developed by the psychiatrist Lorna Wing in the 1980s, the term was intended to reflect the wide range of autistic experiences and needs.
But a growing body of research is
(Full Story)
|
By Anna Linder, Researcher in Health Economics, Lund University
Gawain Heckley, Researcher in Health Economics, Lund University
Ulf Gerdtham, Professor of Health Economics, Lund University
Schools increasingly rely on testing, grading and performance accountability. In England, Ofsted inspections and school league tables sharpen the focus on measurable performance. Similar developments have taken place in Sweden, where repeated reforms have introduced earlier and more detailed assessments.
Performance-driven school environments shape young people’s wellbeing. Yet despite frequent reforms to evaluation systems, their psychological consequences rarely take centre stage in policy debates.
…
(Full Story)
|
By Alexandre Massaux, Chercheur associé à la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
The victory of the Tisza party in Hungary marks a major political turning point, but the European and geopolitical implications of this remain unclear.
(Full Story)
|
By Phil Starks, Associate Professor of Biology, Tufts University
The placebo effect is more than just mental – it’s a biological system that can measurably improve a patient’s symptoms. But someone else needs to activate it – creating a risk of manipulation.
(Full Story)
|
By Michael A. Allen, Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
Carla Martinez Machain, Professor of Political Science, University at Buffalo
Michael E. Flynn, Professor of Political Science, Kansas State University
NATO members have been divided before. But the war in Iran could prove particularly troublesome for an alliance founded at the beginning of the Cold War.
(Full Story)
|
By Gregor Henze, Professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Sean Shaheen, Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Many consumers – and state policymakers and even utility companies – are worried about the possibility of large numbers of data centers raising electricity demand and power prices.
Those are real…
(Full Story)
|
By Valerie M. Fridland, Professor of Linguistics, University of Nevada, Reno
Throughout the history of the language, what has been considered ‘bad’ speech often becomes ‘proper.’ You just have to give it time.
(Full Story)
|
By Anne Toomey McKenna, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State
To augment information about you that it collects directly, the US Government is buying less-regulated information harvested by cameras, cellphones and apps and sold on the commercial data market.
(Full Story)
|
By Angelica P. Ahrens, Assistant Research Scientist in Data Science and Microbiology, University of Florida
Eric W. Triplett, Professor and Chair of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida
Johnny Ludvigsson, Professor Emeritus of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University
Genetics may only partially determine a newborn’s risk of developing Type 1 diabetes. Screening umbilical cord blood could lead to earlier treatments to prevent or reduce disease.
(Full Story)
|