Next Generation Learning Analytics: Or, How Learning Analytics is Passé: "'Learning Analytics,' as so many know it, is already passé. There is almost always a disconnect between research innovation and the popular imagination. By the time a new concept or approach achieves widespread acceptance, its...
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Hopkins Study Finds Popular Blood Pressure App Wildly Inaccurate - Slashdot
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What Instagrams Look Like in Food Deserts: Social-media photos can be a rich source of information about the diets of people who don’t have access to grocery stores.
Source: theatlantic.com
Statin-Associated Autoimmune Myopathy - Now@NEJM: Statins significantly reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, are generally safe, and have an acceptable side-effect profile. It is now recognized, however, that in very rare cases, an autoimmune myopathy develops in patients treated with statins;...
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Sci-Hub: How Does it Work?: Sci-Hub is a pirate website that enables users to access content that is held behind publisher paywalls. This is how it works.
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Study Supports Prednisolone as First-Line Treatment Option for Gout: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Prednisolone and indomethacin are equally effective in relieving joint pain in patients with gout, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine...
Source: jwatch.org
McDonald’s kale salad has more fat and calories than a double Big Mac: Fast-food salads or not, eating out is bad for your health according to new studies.
Source: arstechnica.com
Real-World Meta-Analysis of Dabigatran vs. Warfarin for Atrial Fibrillation - American College of Cardiology
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Healthcare on demand to see increased funding in coming years says an industry report by Accenture. Over $1billion by 2017.
In this burgeoning on-demand economy, market entrants have developed solutions that address activities previously perceived as dull or demanding. For instance, Wype brings car-washing...
Source: accenture.com
The Powerhouse: America, China, and the great battery war. More about the 'Battery Guys' than the 'Battery Science' but a great account of the national laboratory team at Argonne developing the Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide (NMC) battery and how those at the cutting edge of technology collaborate,...
Source: stevelevinebooks.com
ClinicFinder App for displaced people finding healthcare in Europe. Doctors of the World have released an App for those with the most need, the least information, and who find themselves in Europe. It is aimed at refugees and migrants and helps them find free primary healthcare and emergency services.
There...
Source: clinicfinder.org
The rise of the robots
Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks (as they already have done) and also skilled labour displacing even highly skilled jobs in time. Healthcare might survive a little longer but physicians assistants empowered by...
Source: amazon.co.uk
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
Source: theguardian.com
The UK has 'one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world': The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world according to a damning new report which said the nation has an “outstandingly poor” record of preventing ill health.
Source: independent.co.uk
In this book Tony Atkinson - Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science - asks the question, "If we wish to reduce the extent of inequality, how can this be done?"
His answer includes looking at history for evidence of what has worked in the past and what could be...
Source: harvard.edu
Standards organization accepts completion of last row of periodic table
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Smartphone-Based Visual Acuity Measurement for Screening and Clinical Assessment: This commentary discusses a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology that describes the accuracy of a smartphone-based visual acuity test for detecting visual impairment in rural Kenya. Christopher J. Brady. Allen O. Eghrari....
Source: jamanetwork.com
Tylenol for Flu Symptoms Might Not Be Helpful: By Kelly Young
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
Acetaminophen may not be much help for influenza, according to … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
You've Been Overtesting for HbA1c, Researchers Assert: By Joe Elia
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
Most patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes have been subject to overtesting, according to a study in … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
Cambridgeshire's £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends - A five-year £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends after eight months because the company running it failed to achieve what Andrew MacPherson, Managing Director of The NHS Strategic Projects Team that managed the procurement on behalf of the CCG...
Source: bbc.co.uk