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| Quantitative assessment for sustainable agriculture Posted: 17 Sep 2021 08:09 AM PDT Scientists have assembled a quantitative assessment for agriculture sustainability for countries around the world based not only on environmental impacts, but economic and social impacts, as well. The Sustainable Agriculture Matrix, or SAM, provides independent and transparent measurements of agricultural sustainability at a national level that can help governments and organizations to evaluate progress, encourage accountability, identify priorities for improvement, and inform national policies and actions towards sustainable agriculture around the globe. |
| Study findings could provide blueprint for regulating lab-developed diagnostic tests Posted: 16 Sep 2021 08:46 AM PDT Diagnostic tests developed in-house in hospital laboratories are not currently regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), unlike those sold by manufacturers. A new study suggests that temporary deviations from FDA policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic offer a look at what regulation of these tests by the agency might look like. Findings from this study could inform legislation aimed at regulating lab-developed tests. |
| As a population gets older, automation accelerates Posted: 16 Sep 2021 08:45 AM PDT Economists authored a new study showing that aging populations lead to greater implementation of robots in workplace settings. |
| Do doctors treat pain differently based on their patients’ race? Posted: 15 Sep 2021 08:09 AM PDT Physicians prescribed opioids more often to their white patients who complained of new-onset low back pain than to their Black, Asian and Hispanic patients during the early days of the national opioid crisis, when prescriptions for these powerful painkillers were surging but their dangers were not fully apparent, a new study has found. |
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