The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a teeny bit scarier: Since 2011, the share of Americans' media consumption that happens in print has dropped about 40 percent. But the share of American ad dollars that go to print has dropped more than 60 percent. Print...
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2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Paul K. Whelton. Robert M. Carey....
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Physician Groups Respond to Las Vegas Shooting: By the Editors
The sale and ownership of semiautomatic and automatic weapons should be banned, the American College of Physicians said in response to the mass casualty … NEJM Journal Watch.
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Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking - TorrentFreak: Sci-Hub, which is regularly referred to as the "Pirate Bay of science," faces another setback in a US federal court. After the site's operator failed to respond, the American Chemical Society now requests a default judgment of...
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67% of Americans use social media to get some of their news; Twitter and Snapchat for news are getting more popular: Sixty-seven percent of Americans report getting some of their news via social media at some point, according to a Pew Research survey of just under 5,000 U.S. adults conducted last month...
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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...
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Measuring Surgical Outcomes for Improvement: Was Codman Wrong?: Ernest Amory Codman was the courageous early 20th century champion for an “end results system” to track hospital outcomes, an idea his surgical colleagues did not welcome. If he were to come back to life today, he would feel vindicated,...
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Obama's tweet to John McCain about his diagnosis was the last thing cancer survivors wanted to see: Glancing through Twitter this morning, I noticed a friend of a friend responding to Barack Obama’s tweet in support of Senator John McCain who has been diagnosed with brain cancer: “John McCain is...
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85 percent of Americans use mobile devices to access news — and seniors are driving that number up: Most people in the U.S. — 85 percent of U.S. adults — have used a mobile device to access news at some point, up from around just 50 percent in 2013. But put aside any assumptions about which groups...
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3 Reasons Why 2017 Is The Year Of The Chatbot – Chatbots Magazine: When the Internet was first marketed for consumer use through companies like America Online, society was buzzing about how cool it was to…
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When the Wolf Finally Arrives: Big Deal Cancelations in North American Libraries - The Scholarly Kitchen: For years, we in libraries have been predicting the imminent demise of the manifestly-unsustainable Big Deal -- and yet it has persisted. Now that may be changing.
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2017 Diabetes Care Standards Issued: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
The American Diabetes Association has released its 2017 "Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes." An overview of the group's guidance on pharmacologic therapy for type 2 diabetes is available … NEJM Journal...
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Canadians with Cystic Fibrosis Live Roughly 10 Years Longer Than Americans: By Kelly Young
Edited by Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Canadian patients with cystic fibrosis have a survival advantage over their U.S. counterparts, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine . … NEJM Journal...
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Two-thirds of Americans see docs who got paid by drug companies: Drexel University study: A new study led by Drexel University found that a majority of Americans visited doctors in the past year who had been paid or given gifts by pharmaceutical or medical device companies -- but very few patients knew...
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Opinion paper summarising evidence published in JACC by a group of physicians reporting on food trends and heart health. "Green leafy vegetables, blueberries, and plant proteins rise to the top of the physicians' recommendations for frequent food intake; coconut oil, palm oil, and antioxidant supplements...
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Report: Mobile adblocking has exploded in Asia, but it’s still tiny in North America and Europe: In Indonesia, 58 percent of mobile devices are running adblockers. In the United States: 1 percent.
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Brexit and Trump explained and how (liberal) globalists have probably got it wrong. "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism: And how moral psychology can help explain and reduce tensions between the two. ... ... globalists often support high levels of immigration and reductions in
national sovereignty;...
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Obama: “My instinct is everybody hates media right now…that has to be an opportunity”: President Obama appeared on the latest episode of the new podcast Pod Save America, in what was billed as his last interview as president of the United States before Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday. (Pod...
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Is patient satisfaction relevant? Plastic surgeons call for better rating tools: Patient satisfaction has become an important quality measure in the US healthcare system. But some plastic surgeons question the value of subjective patient satisfaction ratings -- suggesting that they might even lead to...
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