Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum: Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics. Nature News.
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Weak Electrical Field Found To Carry Information Around the Brain - Slashdot
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Delhi embraces car restrictions on key working day - BBC News: The first full day of car restrictions in the Indian capital, Delhi, is largely observed - but how it affects pollution remains to be seen, writes Atish Patel.
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The top five causes of death worldwide - infographic: Five conditions accounted for almost 40% of all deaths worldwide in 2012. The countries are most affected by these diseases and how trends are changing over time
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Top Dermatology Stories of 2015: By the NEJM Journal Watch Editors
NEJM Journal Watch Dermatology presents its list of the 10 top stories … NEJM Journal Watch.
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CDC issues travel advisory for 14 countries with alarming viral outbreaks: Experts scrambling as US sees first birth defect linked to mosquito-spread virus.
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WHO | WHO Consultation Meeting to Enhance the Engagement of Communities, Nongovernmental and other Civil Society Organizations in the Implementation of the End TB Strategy WHO.
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Inverse probability weighting Mohammad Ali Mansournia. Douglas G Altman. BMJ.
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Want to improve teaching in universities? Value those who teach: As university reform draws nearer, the government must address the sector’s growing problem of insecure working conditions
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Grisly Find Suggests Humans Inhabited Arctic 45,000 Years Ago - Slashdot
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French drug trial turns disastrous, leaving 1 brain dead and 5 hospitalized
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Dutch police claim they can crack PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys | ExtremeTech: A new report from Dutch authorities claims that PGP-encrypted BlackBerrys can be cracked with specialized hardware, illustrating how difficult it is to secure hardware in someone else's possession.
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Ofsted calls The Cornwall College Group a ‘catalyst’ for raising skills levels: STAFF and students across The Cornwall College Group are celebrating after the group was rated good in all categories by Ofsted. The report praises the expertise of teachers on all the campuses, the...
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Dr Phil Hammond - Medicine Balls. "If Hunt and Cameron are to regain the trust of doctors and other NHS staff, and avoid the huge risk of strikes in the middle of January, they must stop spinning and start telling the truth. Staff and patients need to know exactly how much is available and what services...
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The idea that there is a welfare-dependent underclass is wrong: A new book by John Hills explores key issues in the current debate about ‘welfare’ and the welfare state. The debate contrasts a stagnant group of people benefiting from it all with the rest who pa…
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A wholesale power grab: how the UK government is handing housing over to private developers: The new housing and planning bill is a raft of dangerous measures that will increase inequality and solely benefit the private sector
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What top researchers discovered when they re-ran the numbers on income inequality
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Bed blocking in Cornwall increases by 69% as new scheme fails - BBC News: A new health scheme designed to reduce the rate of hospital bed blocking instead sees figures soar by 69%.
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Building the 21st century scientist : Nature News & Comment
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How can we use quality data to make Care Homes safer?: Dr Adam Gordon is Clinical Associate Professor in Medicine of Older People at The University of Nottingham and an Honorary Consultant Geriatrician at Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; he tweets @...
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