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Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Possible neuromarker for 'juvenile-onset' Batten disease

Researchers find that an easy-to-measure brain process may be a target or biomarker in measuring treatment outcomes in clinical trials in Batten disease.

Climate change could be impacting babies' birthweight for gestational age

Climate change could pose a big risk to Australians' reproductive health with a new, large-scale study revealing a possible link between extreme bioclimatic exposure during pregnancy and babies' birthweights for gestational age. Researchers examined more than 385,000 pregnancies in Western Australia between 2000 and 2015, from 12 weeks prior to conception until birth.

Emergency medicine residencies more likely to go unfilled at for-profit and newly accredited programs

The number of unfilled positions in emergency medicine residency programs surged in 2022 and 2023, with the trend most pronounced at programs that were recently accredited or under for-profit ownership. That’s the key finding of my team’s recent study ^[1]

Junior doctors in NI balloted for first time over pay

The ballot announced on Monday will run for six weeks and could result in a 24-hour walk-out.

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