Exposure to sunshine for a few minutes a day is enough to provide us with sufficient vitamin D. Because people living in Africa are exposed to more sunshine than their northern cold climate counterparts, a common view has developed that they have less of a vitamin D deficiency problem. But this isn’t true. Reagan Mogire sets out what he found doing a review of research on the issue in Africa and why under-diagnosis is a serious problem.
Croatia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have had much lower death rates than most Western European countries. Jan Culik and Mirna Solic ask: why has so little attention been paid to these apparent successes in the east?
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Exposure to sunshine for a few minutes is enough to provide sufficient vitamin D.
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Reagan Mogire, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme
Vitamin D has been shown to regulate the function of 229 genes in humans, suggesting that it plays many roles in maintaining health.
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Jan Culik, University of Glasgow; Mirna Solic, University of Glasgow
Death rates are low in the region but this has largely gone ignored.
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Politics + Society
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Christian K. Anderson, University of South Carolina
Despite his defense of slavery, the former vice president and US senator from South Carolina has been honored with statues and streets, schools and counties. That's finally changing.
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Sharon Austin, University of Florida
Four decades after Ellen Craig-Jones of Urbancrest, Ohio, became the US's first Black woman mayor, seven of the nation's largest cities are lead by Black women. And what a time to be in charge.
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Business + Economy
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Alessandra Mezzadri, SOAS, University of London; Kanchana N Ruwanpura, University of Edinburgh
The story of how many Asian garment manufacturers joined this different supply chain during the pandemic – with no help from western retail customers.
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Seán McLoughlin, University of Leeds
Expanding pilgrimage is a key part of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 – COVID-19 has put that on hold.
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COVID-19
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Kacey Ernst, University of Arizona; Paloma Beamer, University of Arizona
Fear of flying means something altogether different in the age of the new coronavirus. Now the biggest concern is how to keep from becoming infected. If you must fly, here are some things to consider.
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Adrian Ashraf Khan, University of Toronto
During the COVID-19 crisis, some medical students at school in Pokhara, Nepal, went to rural Himalayan villages to teach about the virus. Others go home to challenge social inequities.
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En Français
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Michel Guillot, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Myriam Khlat, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED)
Les données actuelles indiquent que la baisse de l’espérance de vie en France en 2020 par rapport à 2019 devrait être modeste, malgré l’épidémie de Covid-19 qui a frappé notre pays. Pourquoi ?
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Lionel Zevounou, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières
La discrimination raciale est au coeur de plusieurs décisions juridiques en France.
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En español
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Elisa Aracil, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Las perspectivas económicas en la región para los próximos meses pueden no ser tan catastrofistas de lo que augura el FMI.
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Ramón Rubio García, Universidad de Oviedo
Si hacemos un análisis de ciclo de vida de los mismos productos hechos con distintos materiales para evaluar su sostenibilidad podemos llevarnos una sorpresa.
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