The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World and the Elsevier Foundation celebrated the 2023 OWSD-EF Awards for Women Scientists, with researchers from Benin, Bolivia, Guatemala, Palestine, Mongolia, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Awarding women scientists means not only recognizing their impressive work but empowering them to be role models. Read more about these incredible women! This article relates to SDG 5, Gender Equality.
This article relates to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about Turner Syndrome, a condition characterized by a partial or complete loss of one of the two X chromosomes in females. The manifestations of this can be quite variable, resulting in infertility and/or distinctive physical features such as a short stature, webbed neck, or a “shield chest”.
This article relates to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about Pierre-Robin Sequence, a rare congenital condition characterized by physical anomalies that result in making the newborn's breathing difficult.
In this special International Women's Day episode of the “World We Want” podcast series, Kume Chibsa, inspirational thought leader and CEO & Co-Founder of Afrovalley, talks to Márcia Balisciano about the agro supply chain challenges that farmers, particularly women, face in Africa and how Afrovalley uses the latest in blockchain technology to help solve them, as well as the difference between equity and equality, the importance of mental health, and many more valuable leadership insights.
Elsevier,
Press Release, February 28th, 2023
"Year of the Zebra" will highlight one rare disease each week in 2023 on world's most watched healthcare video education channel, 'Osmosis from Elsevier,' to educate healthcare professionals and students and accelerate rare disease diagnosis and research
This article relates to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about retroperitoneal fibrosis, an inflammatory condition in which fiber-like tissue accumulates behind the peritoneum and causes lower back pain.
This article related to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about Tetralogy of Fallot, the single most common form of congenital heart disease that causes cyanosis (bluish discoloration from lack of oxygen).
