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Founder of the cancer advocacy organization: Rowaca Cancer Group

• Scientists identify characteristics to better define long COVID

  By thespecimennews on May 18, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  A research team supported by the National Institutes of Health has identified characteristics of people with long COVID and those likely to have it. Scientists, using machine learning techniques, analyzed an unprecedented collection of electronic health records (EHRs) available for… Read More ›

• Tobacco smoking rates are decreasing in people with major depression and substance use disorder

  By thespecimennews on May 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Past studies have documented that smoking rates remained essentially unchanged in people with substance use disorders, major depression or other psychiatric disorders.

• Central African Republic: War Crimes Court’s First Trial

  By thespecimennews on May 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  “The Special Criminal Court’s first trial is a landmark moment for victims in the Central African Republic who have repeatedly called for justice for heinous crimes committed during successive conflicts in the country,” said Esti Tambay, senior International Justice counsel at Human Rights Watch.

• Drug use severity in adolescence affects substance use disorder risk in adulthood

  By thespecimennews on April 3, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  NIH-funded study shows screening for substance use disorder in teens may help predict adult prescription drug use and misuse and prevent overdose.

• NIH begins clinical trial evaluating second COVID-19 booster shots in adults

  By thespecimennews on April 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The first stage of this trial is being conducted in collaboration with Moderna, Inc., based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Moderna is manufacturing the study vaccines that will be administered.

• Sudan: ICC Holds First Darfur Trial

  By thespecimennews on April 2, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Ali Kosheib, or Kushayb, is the nom de guerre of Ali Mohammed Ali, identified by the International Criminal Court (ICC) as Ali Mohammed Ali Abd–Al-Rahman. Kosheib is believed to have been the principal leader of the Janjaweed militias in the Wadi Saleh area of West Darfur.

• NIH launches program to offer molecular characterization of childhood cancers

  By thespecimennews on March 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  The Molecular Characterization Initiative is offered through NCI’s Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, which was launched in 2019 to promote data sharing and collection of new data among researchers who study childhood cancers.