🌞 India's free HPV vaccination program

Safe to say there’s a fair bit going on in the news cycle this morning.

Let’s take a moment to walk on the bright side together before you go on with your day.

British pop sensation PinkPantheress has made history, becoming the youngest and first female winner of Producer of the Year at the BRIT awards. 

The annual ceremony awards the best in British and international music from the past year. The ‘Illegal’ singer/producer was also nominated for two other awards: Artist of the Year and Dance Act. 

She said: “As the first woman to win this award, I’m grateful to be recognised… I’ve worked really hard at [music production], so I hope this inspires others to pursue their passion.”

BRIT awards committee chair Stacey Tang said: “As a producer, [PinkPantheress is] precise and playful, building bold, boundary-expanding sounds… She’s quietly reshaping what modern pop can be, and in doing so, opening the door for a new wave of female producers to step forward.”

A view of Firefall effect on El Capitan during sunset at Horsetail Fall as hundreds of tourists and photographers flock to Yosemite National Park in California.

Firefall is a natural light and water display at Horsetail Fall as the setting sun illuminates the mist of the falls, making them appear to be on fire.

India’s health department is set to launch a nationwide HPV vaccination program for teenage girls 

HPV is a sexually transmitted infection. Almost all cervical cancers are linked to HPV. Cervical cancer is a disease where cells begin to grow abnormally in the cervix, the entrance to the uterus. 

The HPV vaccine has been proven to be highly effective in preventing infection.

The voluntary and free program will target 14-year-old girls. A health official told Indian media outlet ‘The Hindu’ that this is the age at which the “HPV vaccine offers maximum preventative benefit”. 

Under the program, vaccinations will be provided at community health centres, district hospitals, and other government health facilities. 

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Goorie and Koorie poet Dr Evelyn Araluen won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize this week for her poetry collection ‘The Rot’. 

Dr Araluen also won the Indigenous Writing category, bringing her winnings to $125,000. Published last year, ‘The Rot’ explores societal issues including colonialism, gender and global injustice. Judges said her collection was of “remarkable poetic intelligence,” adding Araluen “pushes contemporary Indigenous writing into new territory”. 

Dr Araluen is also a lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development.

She said she started writing poems for the collection after starting work at the Wilin Centre, adding that “it’s been a really affirming experience… to feel like I’ve grown into my creative practice as a poet and First Nations storytelling practitioner alongside other mob”. 

You know we couldn’t have a good newsletter without a science win, so here it is!

Researchers at the UK’s Durham University have created an AI tool that could help healthcare professionals identify very sick patients earlier. 

It is primarily focused on emergency/acute hospital settings, where staff often need to make decisions under pressure. Currently, many hospitals use a system based on paper-like charts with limited data.

The AI model, developed by Professor Noura Al Moubayed and Dr Matthew Watson, looks at the full electronic health record of a patient, including clinicians’ notes written when they first present to the emergency department. The tool then analyses this information, producing a personalised risk score to help identify which patients are more likely to deteriorate within the next day and require urgent attention.

The model was developed using data from more than 170,000 hospital admissions at a British hospital. When tested, the AI system correctly identified 92% of patients who later deteriorated, compared to the old system’s 13%. 

This means clinicians could prioritise their time and resources for those who need them most.