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How do you get your creative juices flowing after spending hours, days or months looking at a blank screen? Researchers share their advice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scientists deploy networking, collaboration and long-term thinking to win private donor dollars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A major clinical study raised questions about one of the most celebrated cancer-screening procedures available, but a close look at the data tells a different story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

US institutions and states are revamping hiring practices in an attempt to increase transparency about past misconduct in academia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite growing awareness that children and teenagers can get depressed, substantial gaps remain in diagnosis and treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presenting and networking at events can be daunting for researchers with a stammer or other speech disability. Here’s how colleagues can support them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Infectious disease, loneliness and stress can affect cellular ageing, making us less healthy and shortening lifespans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The biological basis for sex differences in autoimmune diseases are beginning to come into focus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Researchers are redefining twenty-first-century conferences at which delegates set the agenda. Researchers are redefining twenty-first-century conferences at which delegates set the agenda. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Access to affordable birth control can improve the social and economic status of women and their communities, especially in low-income countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health-care systems are rolling out artificial-intelligence tools for diagnosis and monitoring. But how reliable are the models? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How researchers think about migraine in young people is shifting, offering hope for better long-term management of the condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Programmes to catch cancers early are on the increase in low- and middle-income countries, but some face cultural and logistical challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Each person’s skin carries a unique population of microbes that might help to protect skin from infection, or increase its vulnerability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Uneven access to health-care resources is complicating the drive to eliminate this viral infection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cavers, divers and climbers take their science to strange and wonderful places. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information related to a research conducted by Tovi Lehmann, a research entomologist at the .National Institute of Health's Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research in Rockville, Maryland, related to finding mosquito hideouts in the dry season Africa, as of July 2014. It mentions that Lehmann explored aestivation in mosquitoes population.

The article looks at the possible complications and side effects as well as the accuracy of mammogram screenings and their role in women's health care. It notes that various organizations have contrasting recommendations regarding who should receive mammograms and at what age. Concerns regarding overdiagnosis are also covered.

The article discusses medical marijuana research in Israel, noting the history of such research. Topics include the work of chemist Raphael Mechoulam on cannabis research, the negative impact of federal regulations on cannabis research in the U.S., and the involvement of pharmaceutical industry research and development (R&D) in Israeli marijuana research.

The article offers information on the treatment of hemophilia, a rare bleeding disorder in dogs. A brief history of the use of dogs to find a line of treatment through the years is mentioned. It discusses techniques including gene therapy to cure this disorder, and studies conducted on dogs to help researchers use the results for the betterment of humans inflicted with this disease.

The article reports on a study showing why rice is the dominant source of inorganic arsenic in the human diet and how this contributes to risks of cancer, heart disease and gastrointestinal problems. Topics include the 2014 World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on safe levels of arsenic in rice, why rice is susceptible to absorbing the highest level of arsenic when compared to other grains, and the use of transporrter proteins that block the pathway of arsenic from the roots to grains.

Medical practice is ideally based on robust, relevant research. However, the lack of disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease has motivated "innovative practice" to improve patients' well-being despite insufficient evidence for the regular use of such interventions in health systems treating millions of patients. Innovative or new non-validated practice poses at least three distinct ethical questions: first, about the responsible application of new non-validated practice to individual patients (clinical ethics); second, about the way in which data from new non-validated practice are communicated via the scientific and lay press (scientific communication ethics); and third, about the prospect of making new non-validated interventions widely available before more definitive testing (public health ethics). We argue that the authors of metabolic enhancement protocols for Alzheimer's disease have overstated the evidence in favor of these interventions within the scientific and lay press, failing to communicate weaknesses in their data and uncertainty about their conclusions. Such unmeasured language may create false hope, cause financial harm, undermine informed consent, and frustrate the production of generalizable knowledge necessary to face the societal problems posed by this devastating disease. We therefore offer more stringent guidelines for responsible innovation in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]