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Increase in US Suicide Rates and the Critical Decline in Psychiatric Beds: This Viewpoint discusses the apparent association

Increase in US Suicide Rates and the Critical Decline in Psychiatric Beds: This Viewpoint discusses the apparent association between a reduction of psychiatric beds and increasing suicide rates in the United States, and proposes an expansion of inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities as a component...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs:

Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Algorithm for Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Fundus Photographs: This study assesses the sensitivity and specificity of an algorithm based on deep machine learning for automated detection of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema in...
Source: jamanetwork.com

The UK government's latest deluded idea: 'banning' underage sexting on social media: When the UK government is not busy

The UK government's latest deluded idea: 'banning' underage sexting on social media: When the UK government is not busy looking for ways to invade internet users' privacy, it's looking for ways to restrict what they are able to do online -- particularly when it comes to things of a sexual nature.
Source: betanews.com

Study: White deaths exceeded births in one-third of states: More white deaths than births were reported in 17 US states,

Study: White deaths exceeded births in one-third of states: More white deaths than births were reported in 17 US states, more than in any time in history, compared to only four in 2004. More than 121 million people -- roughly 38 percent of the total US population -- reside in the 17 states with white...
Source: eurekalert.org

Science historians mark 150 years of 'the tree of life' in Nature article: How can we depict diversity? Biologists of the

Science historians mark 150 years of 'the tree of life' in Nature article: How can we depict diversity? Biologists of the 19th century faced this question as they became aware not only of the huge variety of plant and animal species, but also of the connections between these species. Ultimately it was...
Source: phys.org

New computational model provides a tool for improving the production of valuable drugs: The model allows scientists to make

New computational model provides a tool for improving the production of valuable drugs: The model allows scientists to make comprehensive simulations without doing tedious experiments in the laboratory. Hence, the model will tell the scientist, which metabolic pathways are involved in the production...
Source: eurekalert.org

Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with: The translation tool is thought to have made up its own

Google Translate AI invents its own language to translate with: The translation tool is thought to have made up its own language to find common ground for translating between language pairs it isn’t trained on
Source: newscientist.com

Scurvy cases reported in Australia reveal modern diet failings: Diabetic patients found to have symptoms of scurvy in Sydney

Scurvy cases reported in Australia reveal modern diet failings: Diabetic patients found to have symptoms of scurvy in Sydney reported they ate few vegetables, or overcooked them, destroying vitamin C
Source: theguardian.com

In a final betrayal of the Cadbury brand, Kraft has quietly abandoned its promise to stick with Fairtrade: When John Cadbury

In a final betrayal of the Cadbury brand, Kraft has quietly abandoned its promise to stick with Fairtrade: When John Cadbury founded his legendary confectionary firm in 1824, he was selling just three products: tea, coffee and – perhaps more predictably – drinking chocolate. With the help of his...
Source: independent.co.uk

APOD: 2016 November 28 - Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble

APOD: 2016 November 28 - Arp 240: A Bridge between Spiral Galaxies from Hubble
Source: nasa.gov

What Edtech Can Learn from Theranos (EdSurge News): In 2014, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes graced the covers of Forbes,

What Edtech Can Learn from Theranos (EdSurge News): In 2014, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes graced the covers of Forbes, Fortune and Inc. magazines. The next year, Holmes was named one of Time's Most Influential People and the Stanford drop-out had raised more than $600M in private capital. When I...
Source: edsurge.com

Machine Learning Detects Diabetic Retinopathy with High Accuracy: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and

Machine Learning Detects Diabetic Retinopathy with High Accuracy: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM A computer algorithm, based on "deep machine learning," evaluated retinal fundus photographs for … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org

Meta-Analysis Supports Lower Prediabetes Cutoff: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair,

Meta-Analysis Supports Lower Prediabetes Cutoff: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and André Sofair, MD, MPH Adults with fasting glucose concentrations as low as 100 mg/dL or hemoglobin A1c levels of 5.7% could face increased risk for cardiovascular events, a BMJ meta-analysis...
Source: jwatch.org

SARA: the Socially Aware Robot Assistant.

In this era of fears that Artificial Intelligence will destroy humanity, SARA is a Socially-Aware Robot Assistant, developed in Carnegie Mellon University’s ArticuLab. SARA interacts with people in a whole new way, personalizing the interaction and improving task performance by relying on information...
Source: cmu.edu

E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017.

blog post image E-learning predictions for 2017. Joining the folly of futurists and pollsters here are my e-learning predictions for 2017. I'm looking forward to engaging with as many of them as I can. Conversational technology. Why not have immediate access and personal learning support on platforms through messaging...
Source: agnate.co.uk

OpenTrials API information: Since our beta launch last week, we’ve had a steady stream of technical questions about how

OpenTrials API information: Since our beta launch last week, we’ve had a steady stream of technical questions about how to use and interact with the data that powers OpenTrials. Good news! Right now we have a public API avail…
Source: opentrials.net

Association of e-Cigarette Vaping and Progression to Heavier Patterns of Cigarette Smoking: This cohort study uses survey

Association of e-Cigarette Vaping and Progression to Heavier Patterns of Cigarette Smoking: This cohort study uses survey data to assess associations between baseline e-cigarette use among high school students and use of combustible cigarettes 6 months later. Adam M. Leventhal. Matthew D. Stone. Nafeesa...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Arrival by ambulance explains variation in mortality by time of admission: retrospective study of admissions to hospital

Arrival by ambulance explains variation in mortality by time of admission: retrospective study of admissions to hospital following emergency department attendance in England: Background Studies finding higher mortality rates for patients admitted to hospital at weekends rely on routine administrative...
Source: bmj.com

Combinations of insulin and oral glucose-lowering drugs for people with type 2 diabetes on insulin treatment | Cochrane

Combinations of insulin and oral glucose-lowering drugs for people with type 2 diabetes on insulin treatment | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org

Good read - The Path. A quick overview of 5 Chinese philosophies making them relevant to how we should think about how we

Good read - The Path. A quick overview of 5 Chinese philosophies making them relevant to how we should think about how we live today. I've not read much about them and assumed they were pretty much ancient and irrelevant, reduced to one-liner aphorisms, but Michael Puett has been teaching a popular...
Source: amazon.co.uk