Data just published online shows a worrying increase in infectious syphilis cases in women living in Australia aged 15–44 (referred to as “reproductive age”) and a subsequent rise in transmission from pregnant parent to child. This is called congenital syphilis. Congenital syphilis is easily prevented through timely testing and treatment of syphilis during pregnancy. Left untreated, congenital syphilis can have devastating outcomes in more than 50% of cases including miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal death and permanent disability. We reviewed all cases of congenital syphilis in Australia between 2011 and 2021 and found tragically 25% were stillborn. For the birthing parent of…
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Every year, millions of children around the globe fall prey to human trafficking. To mark World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the United Nations Network on Migration calls on States to intensify their efforts to prevent and combat child trafficking and to provide comprehensive protection and assistance to the children who fall victim to this crime. Current global crises have led to an unprecedented number of children on the move, whether as migrants, asylum-seekers, refugees or internally displaced persons. These children, particularly when alone, are at heightened risk of human rights violations, violence and exploitation, with devastating impacts on their…
NASA’s DART mission – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was humanity’s first real-world planetary defence mission. In September 2022, the DART spacecraft smashed into the companion “moon” of a small asteroid 11 million kilometres from Earth. One goal was to find out if we can give such things a shove if one were headed our way. By gathering lots of data on approach and after the impact, we would also get a better idea of what we’d be in for if such an asteroid were to hit Earth. Five new studies published in Nature Communications today have used the images…
It’s one thing to aspire to be the “greenest games in history”, quite another to achieve it. While the Paris Olympics are responding to the threat to sport from the climate crisis, they also highlight the contradictions inherent in making global sport a platform for climate action. Average temperatures in Paris are set to be 2.4–2.7°C higher than in 1924 when the city last hosted the games. Although the possibility of an extreme heatwave worried organisers, so far they’ve mostly contended with soggy skies and flood warnings. But while the spotlight is on Paris, the impacts of climate change –…
When director Rich Peppiatt first approached the three members of Kneecap, a Belfast hip-hip trio that raps in the Irish language, they weren’t sure what to make of his completely unsolicited pitch to make a feature film about them.“We were very hesitant,” says rapper Naoise Ó Cairealláin. “At first because, well, No. 1 he’s English, and that’s enough for us to be quite skeptical because for a long time the English would profit off the Irish labor.“Also, we’re the band; we’re Kneecap,” he says as bandmate JJ Ó Dochartaigh looks on. “We’re a real-life band, not a mythical made-up band.…
Majorities in both parties approve of keeping strict economic sanctions on Russia U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken walks down a street in Kyiv during an announced visit to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on May 14, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images) Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ attitudes toward the war in Ukraine. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,424 adults from July 1-7, 2024. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who…
LAS VEGAS – El Departamento de Trabajo de EE.UU. ha recuperado $475,385 en salarios no pagados y compensación por daños del dueño de tres restaurantes Juan’s Flaming Fajitas & Cantina en Las Vegas y Henderson que no combinó las horas trabajadas por 32 empleados en más de una ubicación y negó inapropiadamente los salarios por sobretiempo ganados por los trabajadores.La División de Horas y Salarios del departamento determinó que el dueño del restaurante, Juan Vázquez, no pagó a los trabajadores afectados tasas por sobretiempo por las horas trabajadas mas allá de 40 a la semana y eximió erróneamente a otros dos…
The new study has shown that Ustekinumab, an established immunotherapy that has been used to treat psoriasis since 2009, is effective in preserving the body’s ability to produce insulin in type 1 diabetes. The results bring the goal of managing type 1 diabetes without insulin a step closer. The study was funded by a Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health and Care Research partnership. The study by Cardiff University, Kings College London, Swansea University and the University of Calgary, unlocked new insights into identifying the specific immune cells (Th17 cells) that cause type 1 diabetes. It also further…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump called the opening ceremony “a disgrace,” while Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said it was proof that the West “denies the existence of a common culture and a common morality based on it.” Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini called the scene “an insult to billions of Christians around the world.” Church groups also criticized the event. The French Bishops’ Conference said it was a “mockery of Christianity,” while a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church called it “cultural suicide.” The Bulgarian Orthodox Church said the event was “embarrassing, seductive and offensive to all Christianity.”…
Automated facial recognition is becoming widespread in Australia. The technology has already been used by retail outlets, sport stadiums and casinos around the country. And in November, the Australian government’s digital identification system will be expanded, after new laws passed parliament earlier in the year. As the technology becomes less expensive and more powerful, it will lend itself to a growing range of applications, such as a proposed age estimation tool. To find out what Australians think about this fast-growing technology, my colleagues and our team conducted a representative national survey of more than 2,000 people. Our results, which we…