The Pacific Rim Health Innovations Conference (PRHIC) 2022 co-organized by The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University (FAH-SYSU) and the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley) was successfully held in the hospital from September 21 to 24.
The 900-km-long Yushu-Ganzi-Xianshuihe fault system in eastern Tibet is one of the world's most seismically active fault systems. It has hosted 12 M > 7 earthquakes since the 18th century, and its future seismic risk has been the subject of extensive research over the past two decades. Besides, the Yushu-Ganzi-Xianshuihe fault system serves as a boundary that separates the Bayan Har and Qiangta...
Ecosystem services are an important tool for Ecological Civilization Construction and an agent of clear water and green mountains becoming mountains of silver and gold. Rapid valuation of ecosystem services is an essential way to achieve the large-scale application of ecosystem services. However, conventional valuation of ecosystem services using primary data requires complex statistics that ma...
The lungs were once believed to be a sterile environment, but in recent years, metagenomics studies confirmed the presence of commensal bacteria in the lungs of healthy individuals. The lungs or lower respiratory tract is linked to the upper respiratory tract and the oral cavity, and several studies have reported that the microbes in the nasal and oral cavity are involved in the formation of th...
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders with the highest disability, affecting about 4.4% of the global population. Women are more likely to be affected by depression and develop more severe depressive symptoms than men, but the underlying mechanisms that contribute to sex difference of depression remain unclear. The recently rediscovered meningeal lymphatic vessels are immune str...
Radiotherapy (RT) is an integral modality in the treatment of head and neck cancers (HNC), especially for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which is prevalent in Southern China. However, radiation may result in brain necrosis, a severe, irreversible or even life-threatening cerebral complication, since healthy brain tissue in or around the RT fields could be damaged. The optimal timing of initiating me...
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