Diagnostic Tests for Syphilis Continue to Perplex Even the Experts
Diagnostic Tests for Syphilis Continue to Perplex Even the Experts: An Unanswerable Question in Infectious Diseases - HIV and ID Observations: Here’s a tricky clinical scenario: An elderly person with cognitive decline or some other non-specific neurologic symptom sees a clinician. Clinician sends...
Source: jwatch.org
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor
Virtual reality technology for teaching neurosurgery of skull base tumor: Neurosurgery represents one of the most challenging and delicate of any surgical procedure. Skull base tumors in particular oftentimes present as a very technically difficult procedures in the setting of neurosurgical teaching....
Source: biomedcentral.com
Diet and Dermatology: Google Search Results for Acne, Psoriasis, and Eczema
Diet and Dermatology: Google Search Results for Acne, Psoriasis, and Eczema: It is difficult to regulate the abundance of medical information that is available to patients on the Internet. This systematic review evaluated content available online related to diet and 3 dermatologic conditions: acne, psoriasis,...
Source: mdedge.com
Preparing Future Psychiatrists in the Era of Apps and Chatbots
Therapy and E-therapy—Preparing Future Psychiatrists in the Era of Apps and Chatbots David Gratzer. David Goldbloom. Academic Psychiatry.
Source: springer.com
Media predictions for 2020 from BBC's Amol Rajan
Amol Rajan's 9 media predictions for 2020: Could we see streamageddon, eco-browsing, the break-up of Amazon and a new owner for ITV? "The data shows we really are living through the most extraordinarily peaceful, prosperous, wealthy, healthy, safe period in human history. There is strong evidence to...
Source: bbc.com
Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system:
Early warning signals for critical transitions in a thermoacoustic system: Dynamical systems can undergo critical transitions where the system suddenly shifts from one stable state to another at a critical threshold called the tipping point. The decrease in recovery rate to equilibrium (critical slowing...
Source: nature.com
Corporate bollox generator
Over the holiday season I have been fine-tuning a new improved "corporate bollox generator" which can now deliver whole sentences of management goop. Please feel free to give it a go. It is written in Javascript and generates random phrases by linking adverbs, verbs, adjectives, and nouns all selected...
Source: agnate.co.uk
Milasen - a drug developed for a single patient.
Patient-Customized Oligonucleotide Therapy for a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM: Summary Genome sequencing is often pivotal in the diagnosis of rare diseases, but many of these conditions lack specific treatments. We describe how molecular diagnosis of a rare, fatal neurodegenerative condition led to the...
Source: nejm.org
Animated video can more cost-effectively reach the widest – even geographically isolated – populations, it readily
Animated video can more cost-effectively reach the widest – even
geographically isolated – populations, it readily complements extension
services and international development community efforts to secure
knowledge transfer and recipient buy-in for innovations. Implications
and future research...
Source: tandfonline.com
20 optical illusions and how they work.
Our vision works very differently to how we assume it might work. It uses a lot of shortcuts to quickly decipher the world and those shortcuts are usually correct. Sometimes though, our vision is fooled and it these quirky areas of processing where optical illusions work. This great list id from Listverse.
Source: listverse.com
Archaeologists found 143 more images among the Nazca Lines: The team used a machine-learning algorithm to search aerial
Archaeologists found 143 more images among the Nazca Lines: The team used a machine-learning algorithm to search aerial photos for geoglyphs.
Source: arstechnica.com
Video for learning
Video for learning is great at some things, not so great at others. Great summary of recent evidence from Donald Clark. What can we learn from Netflix? (Use technology appropriately not just the buzzwords) Episodic vs. Semantic memory (Remembering the right things from video isn't as easy as you think)...
Source: blogspot.com
Barbara Liskov - the architect of modern algorithms.
The Architect of Modern Algorithm. "Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone." She talks about her experience and views of AI, the internet, being a woman in computer science (women...
Source: quantamagazine.org
Why People Demanded Privacy to Confide in the World
"To encourage ongoing dialogue, Weizenbaum designed Eliza to simulate the type of conversational style used by a Rogerian psychoanalyst. The program would take something the user said and reflect it back with a question
... during their brief interactions with Eliza, many users began forming emotional...
Source: ieee.org
The Distinctions Between Theory, Theoretical Framework, and Conceptual Framework
"Health professions education (HPE) researchers are regularly asked to articulate their use of theory, theoretical frameworks, and conceptual frameworks in their research. However, all too often, these words are used interchangeably or without a clear understanding of the differences between these concepts....
Source: lww.com
Autonomy, Belonging, Competence. GMC reports on the ABC of wellbeing.
Caring for doctors Caring for patients: An independent report into the wellbeing of UK medical students and doctors. "In 2018 we commissioned Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia, to carry out a UK-wide review to help tackle the causes of poor wellbeing faced by medical students and doctors.
...
Source: gmc-uk.org
City fund managers call for rethink of capitalism
"Two of the world’s biggest fund management bosses have called for a rethink of capitalism and its obsession with constant economic growth, in a plaintive appeal for business and governments to deal more decisively with the challenges of climate change.
Anne Richards, chief executive of Fidelity...
Source: www.ft.com
Eisai launches a digital health solution on Amazon Alexa for children with a rare form of epilepsy - Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.
It marks the first time Pharmaceutical company Eisai has moved beyond medications and into digital health. The company’s Amazon Alexa skill – Ella the Jellyfish – has been developed for children with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS) and was created with input from patients, their families and caregivers.
Source: epmmagazine.com
14 Different Types of Learning in Machine Learning.
14 Different Types of Learning in Machine Learning: Machine learning is a large field of study that overlaps with and inherits ideas from many related fields such as artificial intelligence. The focus of the field is learning, that is, acquiring skills or knowledge from experience. Most commonly, this...
Source: machinelearningmastery.com
Evaluation of Mobile Apps Targeted at Patients With Spondyloarthritis for Disease Monitoring: Systematic App Search.
Evaluation of Mobile Apps Targeted at Patients With Spondyloarthritis for Disease Monitoring. "A total of 1253 apps were identified in the app stores, and 5 apps met the criteria and were further analyzed. Moreover, 2 apps (MySpA and Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis...
Source: nih.gov
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