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Police raid Merck pharmaceutical plant amid mysterious drug crisis: Is something wrong with hormone therapy or are patients

Police raid Merck pharmaceutical plant amid mysterious drug crisis: Is something wrong with hormone therapy or are patients over-reacting?
Source: arstechnica.com

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017
Source: nobelprize.org

Smartphone Heart Monitor Beats Doctors at Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation: The Kardia heart monitor from AliveCor did almost

Smartphone Heart Monitor Beats Doctors at Diagnosing Atrial Fibrillation: The Kardia heart monitor from AliveCor did almost 4 times better than doctors providing standard care
Source: ieee.org

The bilingual brain calculates differently depending on the language used: How do multilingual people solve arithmetical

The bilingual brain calculates differently depending on the language used: How do multilingual people solve arithmetical tasks presented to them in different languages? The question will gain in importance in the future, as an increasingly globalized job market and accelerated migration will mean that...
Source: eurekalert.org

Social media helps students learn scientific argumentation better, study says: Adults often bemoan the amount of time young

Social media helps students learn scientific argumentation better, study says: Adults often bemoan the amount of time young people spend staring at a screen and browsing social media. But social media can not only be a way to teach students elements of the scientific process, those who took part in a...
Source: phys.org

Small increases in physical activity reduce immobility, disability risks in older adults: Adding 48 minutes of exercise

Small increases in physical activity reduce immobility, disability risks in older adults: Adding 48 minutes of exercise per week is associated with improvements in overall mobility and decreases in risks of disability in older adults who are sedentary, finds a new study led by researchers at the Jean...
Source: eurekalert.org

The low-cost device saving newborns in India: Birth asphyxia – lack of oxygen – is the cause of 20% of newborn deaths

The low-cost device saving newborns in India: Birth asphyxia – lack of oxygen – is the cause of 20% of newborn deaths in India. A simple piece of equipment is helping revive babies and prevent long-term damage
Source: theguardian.com

Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to significantly improve the effectiveness of a

Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to significantly improve the effectiveness of a business or organization. Many of the principles are philosophical. Others are more programmatic. All are transformative in nature. The principles (points) were first presented in...
Source: deming.org

IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling

IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling Watson to recommend the best cancer treatments to doctors around the world three years ago. But is it really doing its job? Not so much. An investigation by Stat found that the supercomputer...
Source: slashdot.org

Red beer, green lager, immature barley beer: the innovations I drank on a ‘jolly’ to Carlsberg: Beer made from immature

Red beer, green lager, immature barley beer: the innovations I drank on a ‘jolly’ to Carlsberg: Beer made from immature “green” barley – who knew such a thing was possible? Or “red lager” made from actual red-coloured barley? And what does a beer taste like made with b…
Source: zythophile.co.uk

Collaborative Care Linked to Better Outcomes in Substance Use Disorders: By Kelly Young Edited by David G. Fairchild,

Collaborative Care Linked to Better Outcomes in Substance Use Disorders: By Kelly Young Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Patients with alcohol or opioid use disorder treated with a collaborative care model in primary care are twice as likely to receive evidence-based...
Source: jwatch.org

Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is

Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development (CPD) and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as...
Source: amegroups.com

Head of stroke programme condemns HSE inertia "Widespread inertia in the health service is leaving Ireland unprepared

Head of stroke programme condemns HSE inertia "Widespread inertia in the health service is leaving Ireland unprepared to cope with a huge increase in the number of stroke patients over the next decade, the outgoing head of the national stroke programme has warned. ...
Source: irishtimes.com

Everyone's an expert, but a computer program may be able to pick the best ones

Everyone's an expert, but a computer program may be able to pick the best ones
Source: phys.org

Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny

Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny that he dismissed research contradicting his claim of excess deaths due to poorer hospital care and staffing at the weekend. He admits he relied on one paper by Professor Nick Freemantle...
Source: theguardian.com

Coming back from the edge: a qualitative study of a professional support unit for junior doctors: It is known that many

Coming back from the edge: a qualitative study of a professional support unit for junior doctors: It is known that many trainee doctors around the world experience work satisfaction but also considerable work stress in the training period. Such stress seems to be linked to multiple factors including...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Development of games prevents cognitive decline in elderly people: The study in Brazil involved a control group and a third

Development of games prevents cognitive decline in elderly people: The study in Brazil involved a control group and a third group of people who learned to play video games
Source: eurekalert.org

Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published

Epigenetics may explain how Darwin's finches respond to rapid environmental changes, according to new research published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology.
Source: phys.org

Continuous Glucose Monitoring May Improve Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes Requiring Insulin: By Kelly Young Edited

Continuous Glucose Monitoring May Improve Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes Requiring Insulin: By Kelly Young Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Among patients with type 2 diabetes, continuous glucose monitoring is associated with better glucose control, according...
Source: jwatch.org

How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of

How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently...
Source: biomedcentral.com