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Seeking Rational Approaches to Fixing Hospital Readmissions: Spurred by federal policy makers, US hospitals have made substantial

Seeking Rational Approaches to Fixing Hospital Readmissions: Spurred by federal policy makers, US hospitals have made substantial efforts to address the problem of high rates of patients being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge. Underlying this policy focus is a straightforward idea:...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Cobalt atoms on graphene: a low-cost catalyst for producing hydrogen from water | KurzweilAI

Cobalt atoms on graphene: a low-cost catalyst for producing hydrogen from water | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

Epic slide deck from former Yahoo board member lays out the future of tech and media: Top business-strategist Michael Wolf

Epic slide deck from former Yahoo board member lays out the future of tech and media: Top business-strategist Michael Wolf shares a massive presentation on the future of tech and media in 2016. [Direct link to Slides http://www.slideshare.net/ActivateInc/activate-tech-and-media-outlook-2016]
Source: businessinsider.com

Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta: For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by

Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta: For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by making encryption ubiquitous. Fixing problems with the Internet's certificate infrastructure has been at the top of that list.
Source: eff.org

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Implications for Access to Essential Medicines: This Viewpoint discusses the

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Implications for Access to Essential Medicines: This Viewpoint discusses the importance of patent protection and its role in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. Jing Luo. Aaron S. Kesselheim. JAMA.
Source: jamanetwork.com

Internet interventions interest informed melanoma patients: (HealthDay)—The melanoma patients receptive to an Internet-delivered

Internet interventions interest informed melanoma patients: (HealthDay)—The melanoma patients receptive to an Internet-delivered behavioral intervention to promote skin self-examination (SSE) and sun protection behaviors may already have higher knowledge of melanoma signs, according to a research letter...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Polio in Ukraine: nationwide vaccination campaign needs to start straight away: With two WHO-confirmed cases of polio in

Polio in Ukraine: nationwide vaccination campaign needs to start straight away: With two WHO-confirmed cases of polio in Ukraine in September, vaccinating the country’s 1.8 million children needs to start as soon as possible
Source: theguardian.com

Doctors ask Cabinet Office to investigate Jeremy Hunt's patient deaths comments: Medics say health secretary breached ministerial

Doctors ask Cabinet Office to investigate Jeremy Hunt's patient deaths comments: Medics say health secretary breached ministerial code of conduct with claim that 11,000 patients a year die after being admitted to hospital at weekends
Source: theguardian.com

The Crowdsourcing Site That Wants to Pool Our Genomes: A new non-profit site aims to open up genetic data for scientific

The Crowdsourcing Site That Wants to Pool Our Genomes: A new non-profit site aims to open up genetic data for scientific research.
Source: theatlantic.com

Early Physical Therapy vs Usual Care in Patients With Recent-Onset Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial: This randomized

Early Physical Therapy vs Usual Care in Patients With Recent-Onset Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial: This randomized trial evaluates whether early physical therapy is more effective than usual care for improving disability in patients with recent-onset low back pain. Julie M. Fritz. John S....
Source: jamanetwork.com

Evaluation and Treatment of Pericarditis: A Systematic Review: This systematic review summarizes published evidence on the

Evaluation and Treatment of Pericarditis: A Systematic Review: This systematic review summarizes published evidence on the causes, diagnosis, therapy, prevention, and prognosis of pericarditis. Massimo Imazio. Fiorenzo Gaita. Martin LeWinter. JAMA.
Source: jamanetwork.com

The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015 S. Bhatt. D. J. Weiss. E. Cameron.

The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015 S. Bhatt. D. J. Weiss. E. Cameron. D. Bisanzio. B. Mappin. U. Dalrymple. K. E. Battle. C. L. Moyes. A. Henry. P. A. Eckhoff. E. A. Wenger. O. Briët. M. A. Penny. T. A. Smith. A. Bennett. J. Yukich. T. P. Eisele. J....
Source: nature.com

Don't Panic - End Poverty

Video "Hans Rosling asks: Has the UN gone mad? The United Nations just announced their boldest goal ever: To eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, already by 2030. Looking at the realities of extremely poor people the goal seems impossible. The rains didn’t fall in Malawi this year....
Source: gapminder.org

Digital badges hit the big time in higher ed: While digital badges may sound like overshared gimmicks from the latest trendy

Digital badges hit the big time in higher ed: While digital badges may sound like overshared gimmicks from the latest trendy game or social network, they have become serious commodities in the world of college credentials. More institutions no
Source: universitybusiness.com

Junior doctors – 'no one understands the level of responsibility we have': From listening to suicidal patients to looking

Junior doctors – 'no one understands the level of responsibility we have': From listening to suicidal patients to looking after the sickest children in the UK, junior doctors are the backbone of the NHS
Source: theguardian.com

Genetic screening for mental health grows rapidly despite little evidence tests work - The Boston Globe: New tests that

Genetic screening for mental health grows rapidly despite little evidence tests work - The Boston Globe: New tests that identify the best psychiatric drugs for patients based on their DNA have limited science behind them and lots of questions ahead.
Source: bostonglobe.com

China creates gene-edited ‘micropigs’ to satisfy an emerging fringe pet market | ExtremeTech: The Beijing genomics institute

China creates gene-edited ‘micropigs’ to satisfy an emerging fringe pet market | ExtremeTech: The Beijing genomics institute is now offering genetically-modified 'micropig' pets in a variety of different flavors to the discriminating swine enthusiast.
Source: extremetech.com

Google Street View arrives in Kenya's Samburu National Park: It’s in the arctic, it's in the desert, and now, eight years

Google Street View arrives in Kenya's Samburu National Park: It’s in the arctic, it's in the desert, and now, eight years after Google commenced its quest to photograph every location in the world, it’s in the African bush. Yesterday the internet giant launched Street View in Kenya’s Samburu National...
Source: independent.co.uk

How People Living at Earth's Extremes Reveal the Genome's Best Tricks: Evolution has sculpted the human genome to cope with

How People Living at Earth's Extremes Reveal the Genome's Best Tricks: Evolution has sculpted the human genome to cope with Earth’s toughest climates, inadvertently pointing geneticists towards medically important genes.
Source: theatlantic.com

Facebook founder calls for universal Internet to help cure global ills | Reuters

Facebook founder calls for universal Internet to help cure global ills | Reuters
Source: reuters.com