30 Apr, 2024
Buro Happold strategy specialists were key advisors for a new medical school in Charlotte, North Carolina. Learn how our experts shaped the future of Wake Forest University School of Medicine.…
Lina Bürger, ex-professional footballer and Hoffenheim sports psychologist, found out in a study: In winter, at the beginning of the second half of the season, players feel worse psychologically. Lina…
EObservation: For breakfast there are rolls with jam or bread with cheese, sausage. Or muesli or oatmeal. Or boiled egg or fried egg. And the next day, as a matter…
The consumption of sugar is omnipresent in our diet, sweet temptations lurk everywhere. However, excessive sugar intake can not only lead to weight gain and tooth decay, but can also…
Newswise — New York, NY [April 29, 2024]—Miriam Merad, MD, PhD, a world-renowned immunologist, has been appointed Dean for Translational Research and Therapeutic Innovation of the Icahn School of Medicine…

How robot Ricky reaches his limits in the nursing home

“Uschi Büscher is a very nice lady and I’ve talked to her often,” says Ricky, about one meter tall, with a knitted hat on his plastic head. His voice sounds a little choppy. He stands between Uschi Büscher and Erika Diekmann’s two wheelchairs in the lounge of the Johanniter senior care home in Hanover-Ricklingen and […]

8 mins read

Contact with mental health peers in a non-clinical setting

An opinion from the Belgian Higher Health Council focuses on peer contacts organized by peer helpers in a non-clinical setting. Analysis of the data shows a mostly positive picture, with individuals feeling “heard, seen and understood” by sharing their own experience as a valuable source of support and inspiration. Peer contact is increasingly used in […]

8 mins read

Contact with mental health peers in a non-clinical setting

An opinion from the Belgian Higher Health Council focuses on peer contacts organized by peer helpers in a non-clinical setting. Analysis of the data shows a mostly positive picture, with individuals feeling “heard, seen and understood” by sharing their own experience as a valuable source of support and inspiration. Peer contact is increasingly used in […]

8 mins read

Nutrition: Oatmeal, bread or egg – this is how the body decides what we have for breakfast

EObservation: For breakfast there are rolls with jam or bread with cheese, sausage. Or muesli or oatmeal. Or boiled egg or fried egg. And the next day, as a matter of course, there is the same thing, bread or eggs or cereal, and then again and again. Often all parameters have to be adhered to […]

11 mins read

Unilever expects “improvement” in nutrition volumes from Q2

Unilever corporate logo. Credit: QubixStudio / Shutterstock Unilever is confident sales volumes from its nutrition business will grow again in the second quarter as the negative effects of portfolio cuts in its Europe market start to ease. Speaking to analysts after Unilever reported its first-quarter results today (25 April), CEO Hein Schumacher said the group […]

5 mins read

Police officers who ignore their powers in mental health cases

Found not criminally responsible five times since 2013, Isaac Brouillard Lessard had to respect release conditions determined by the Commission for the Examination of Mental Disorders (CETM) at the time he killed Sergeant Maureen Breau before being shot during a police operation in Louiseville. During the days preceding the tragedy, the police did not use […]

8 mins read