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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 14-Sep-2025 05:11 ET (14-Sep-2025 09:11 GMT/UTC)

Schaeffer Center white paper outlines FDA reforms to boost pharmaceutical innovation and expand access

University of Southern California
Reports and Proceedings

To harness the full potential of new medical technologies, a new white paper calls for significant FDA reforms to streamline clinical trials, provide greater certainty for innovators and speed game-changing treatments to more patients.

Funder: Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics

Excess HIV infections and costs associated with reductions in HIV prevention services in the us

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this economic evaluation estimating effects of the possible health care policy changes on HIV transmission, findings suggest that even modest reductions in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) coverage would result in thousands of avoidable HIV infections and billions of dollars of increases in net health care costs.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

Americans’ knowledge of civics increases, Annenberg survey finds

Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Reports and Proceedings

The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey finds an increase in Americans' ability to answer basic civics questions. It also finds low trust in the Supreme Court and strong bipartisan support for several reforms to the court.

HKUST team develops AI-powered tool for accurate prediction of coastal oceans’ health

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), led by Professors Gan Jianping (Department of Ocean Science) and Professor Yang Can (Department of Mathematics), has developed a novel AI-powered tool named STIMP for diagnosing coastal ocean productivity and ecosystem health. STIMP introduces a novel paradigm that imputes missing data and then predicts Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentrations across large spatiotemporal scales. In tests across four representative global coastal regions, STIMP significantly outperformed existing geoscience tools, reducing the mean absolute error (MAE) for imputation by up to 81.39% and for prediction by 58.99%. Accurate Chl-a prediction aids in early detection of harmful algal blooms, ecosystem protection, and provides data-driven insights for evidence-based policy-making.

Journal: Nature Communications

How nations balanced health and economy in the COVID-19 pandemic: A global review

Shinshu University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

How did different countries fare in achieving a balance between infection control and economic stability during the COVID-19 pandemic? To address this question, researchers studied the temporal dynamics of number of deaths, vaccination rates, production, and economic recovery across multiple countries. The study highlights that countries differed in risk attitudes and economic preferences that shaped policy decisions, hence impacting their performance. These insights will benefit governments and citizens in forming social defense during future pandemics.

Journal: Journal of Policy Modeling
Funder: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan Center for Economic Research

ECNU review of education study reveals hands-on science activities boost preschool children's motivation for learning

ECNU Review of Education

A new study from Çukurova University published in ECNU Review of Education shows that hands-on science activities effectively increase preschool children's motivation for science learning. This quasi-experimental research, involving 25 children aged 60–72 months, found that children who participated in hands-on science experiments over five weeks showed significantly higher science motivation compared to those in traditional classroom settings, with no gender differences in the positive effects.

Journal: ECNU Review of Education

Looking to the future together: 20 years of the European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring

Goethe University Frankfurt
Meeting Announcement

What challenges do regional labour markets in Vietnam and in Hesse share? And what can each side learn from the other’s solutions? Questions like these will be at the heart of the discussions of this month’s conference of the European Network on Regional Labour Market Monitoring, which brings together more than 100 experts from Europe, Asia and Africa at Goethe University Frankfurt.

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