An overview of Corsica including key facts and notes on the media

Key facts, figures and dates

An overview of the Channel Islands including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

A profile of the Spanish north African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla

An overview of Ajaria including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

An overview of Abkhazia including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media.

An overview of Zanzibar, including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

Key facts about the territory disputed between Morocco and the Polisario independence movement

Key facts for St Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha

An overview of Somaliland, including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

An overview of the French island in the Indian Ocean

A profile of the Somali region which declared autonomy in 1998

A profile of the British overseas territory in the West Indies

An overview of the sole French territory in North America

An overview of Puerto Rico, including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

A profile of the Dutch territory in the Caribbean

Key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

An overview of the French overseas department in the Caribbean

A profile of the French Caribbean territory

An overview of French Guiana including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

An overview of the Falkland Islands, including key facts, political leaders and the media

An overview of the Caymans, including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

An overview of the British Virgin Islands, including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

An overview of Bermuda, including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

An overview of Aruba including key facts, political leaders and the media

Key facts, political leaders and notes on the media

TidalWave Productions is releasing Buttigieg and Bloomberg comic books to sit alongside its Warren biography.

Girls who fled Boko Haram attacks are being enslaved and raped by human traffickers who then sell their babies.

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CTVNews.ca asked Canadians to share how they were using their CERB payments and got a flood of responses. Most said they were covering the basics -- housing, groceries, transportation and medicine.

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Landlords who are missing thousands of dollars in rent or who find their properties damaged or strewn with garbage are concerned some tenants are taking advantage of the eviction ban put in place during the pandemic.

Researchers have engineered bacteria to produce new versions of a potential antibiotic molecule, some with potent antimalarial properties.

Objective: To develop a novel approach to generate individual maps of white matter (WM) innate immune cell activation using ¹⁸F-DPA-714 translocator protein (TSPO) positron emission tomography (PET), and to explore the relationship between these maps and individual trajectories of disability worsening in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: Patients with MS (n = 37), whose trajectories of disability worsening over the 2 years preceding study entry were calculated, and healthy controls (n = 19) underwent magnetic resonance magnetic and ¹⁸F-DPA-714 PET. A threshold of significant activation of ¹⁸F-DPA-714 binding was calculated with a voxel-wise randomized permutation-based comparison between patients and controls, and used to classify each WM voxel in patients as characterized by a significant activation of innate immune cells (DPA+) or not. Individual maps of innate immune cell activation in the WM were employed to calculate the extent of activation in WM regions-of-interests and to classify each WM lesion as "DPA-active", "DPA-inactive" or "unclassified". Results: Compared with the WM of healthy controls, patients with MS had a significantly higher percentage of DPA+ voxels in the normal-appearing WM, (NAWM in patients=24.9±9.7%; WM in controls=14.0±7.8%, p<0.001). In patients with MS, the percentage of DPA+ voxels showed a significant increase from NAWM, to perilesional areas, T2 hyperintense lesions and T1 hypointense lesions (38.1±13.5%, 45.0±17.9%, and 51.9±22.9%, respectively, p<0.001). Among the 1379 T2 lesions identified, 512 were defined as DPA-active and 258 as DPA-inactive. A higher number of lesions classified as DPA-active (OR=1.13, P = 0.009), a higher percentage of DPA+ voxels in the NAWM (OR=1.16, P = 0.009) and in T1-spin-echo lesions (OR=1.06, P = 0.036), were significantly associated with a retrospective more severe clinical trajectory in patients with MS. Conclusion: A more severe trajectory of disability worsening in MS is associated with an innate immune cells activation inside and around WM lesions. ¹⁸F-DPA-714 PET may provide a promising biomarker to identify patients at risk of severe clinical trajectory.

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As we cover the covid-19 outbreak, we want to hear some of the stories from the frontline - And who better to heart of what this pandemic is doing to the profession in the UK, than some of the people who write regularly for The BMJ? In this first one, we wanted to look specifically at acute care - those at the sharp end of the response, so we're...

As the pandemic plays out - the way in which doctors in the UK practice is changing, hospitals are reconfigured to increase critical care capacity, GPs are working from home and doing their day to day work remotely. Some of the changes have come at the detriment of staff and patient wellbeing but covid-19 has also helped cut through some of the...

As the pandemic plays out - hospitals are reconfigured to increase critical care capacity, outpatient clinics become virtual, and elective procedures delayed. How are these affecting care for those who are in hospital but don't have covid-19? In this podcast, Matt Morgan,honorary senior research fellow at Cardiff University, consultant in...

Oil prices fell early Thursday despite an OPEC report confirming a sizable cut due to bearishness related to rising United States production and inventories.

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Previous studies suggested that childhood prediabetes may develop prior to obesity and be associated with relative insulin deficiency. We proposed that the insulin-deficient phenotype is genetically determined and tested this hypothesis by longitudinal modeling of insulin and glucose traits with diabetes risk genotypes in the EarlyBird cohort.