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A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset - Slashdot

A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset - Slashdot
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Updated OECD 2015 Health Data. U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health

Updated OECD 2015 Health Data. U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Services, Prices, and Health in 13 Countries: Despite spending far more on health care than other high-income countries in 2013, Americans had comparatively poor health outcomes, including shorter life expectancy...
Source: commonwealthfund.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

Social media usage at critical care conferences helps broaden reach: Social media is a tool that groups have adopted to

Social media usage at critical care conferences helps broaden reach: Social media is a tool that groups have adopted to help educate, market, and promote causes or topics to a broad audience. Researchers examined trends in social media use at pulmonary and critical care conferences and found substantial...
Source: eurekalert.org

Impact of proton pump inhibitor treatment on gastrointestinal bleeding associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug

Impact of proton pump inhibitor treatment on gastrointestinal bleeding associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use among post-myocardial infarction patients taking antithrombotics: nationwide study Anne-Marie Schjerning Olsen. Jesper Lindhardsen. Gunnar H Gislason. Patricia McGettigan. Mark...
Source: bmj.com

The Simplest Definition of SCORM You'll Ever Read: SCORM compliance assures companies that content creation tools and learning

The Simplest Definition of SCORM You'll Ever Read: SCORM compliance assures companies that content creation tools and learning management systems (LMS) work together to create an optimal instructional experience.
Source: schoolkeep.com

Patients using nurse practitioners are less likely to have avoidable hospital admissions: New research from The University

Patients using nurse practitioners are less likely to have avoidable hospital admissions: New research from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston indicates that diabetic patients who got their primary care from nurse practitioners did not have an increase in potentially preventable hospital...
Source: medicalxpress.com

How to Increase Conference Attendance - e-Learning Feeds: For associations, conferences represent a major source of potential

How to Increase Conference Attendance - e-Learning Feeds: For associations, conferences represent a major source of potential revenue. To best realize that revenue, your conference not only has to attract attendee
Source: elearningfeeds.com

Pearson to Pay L.A. Schools $6.5 Million Over Botched Digital Curriculum - e-Learning Feeds: The publishing giant will reimburse

Pearson to Pay L.A. Schools $6.5 Million Over Botched Digital Curriculum - e-Learning Feeds: The publishing giant will reimburse the district for costs associated with content originally intended to come pre-loaded on student iPads.
Source: elearningfeeds.com

Journal Resuscitation publishes updated European Resuscitation Council guidelines: Elsevier, a world-leading provider of

Journal Resuscitation publishes updated European Resuscitation Council guidelines: Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the publication of the 2015 European Resuscitation Council guidelines, in the latest issue of journal...
Source: eurekalert.org

State of Care 2014/15 from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - room for improvement. "Demands are increasing on health

State of Care 2014/15 from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - room for improvement. "Demands are increasing on health and social care. State of Care – our annual overview of health and social care in England – looks at the trends, highlights examples of good and outstanding care, and identifies ...
Source: cqc.org.uk

UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL - Slashdot

UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL - Slashdot
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Why elephants rarely get cancer: Potential mechanism identified that may be key to cancer resistance: Why elephants rarely

Why elephants rarely get cancer: Potential mechanism identified that may be key to cancer resistance: Why elephants rarely get cancer is a mystery that has stumped scientists for decades. A study led by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and Arizona State University,...
Source: medicalxpress.com

NASA offers 1,200 patents to startups, with no upfront licensing costs: Here's your chance to make a collapsible plane or

NASA offers 1,200 patents to startups, with no upfront licensing costs: Here's your chance to make a collapsible plane or handheld laser flashlight.
Source: arstechnica.com

Landmark High Court ruling on BRCA1 gene patent as pensioner wins legal case | smh.com.au

Landmark High Court ruling on BRCA1 gene patent as pensioner wins legal case | smh.com.au
Source: smh.com.au

Wyoming marks first known rabies fatality with death of woman, 77: Wyoming has recorded the state's first known fatality

Wyoming marks first known rabies fatality with death of woman, 77: Wyoming has recorded the state's first known fatality from rabies with the death of an elderly woman from Lander who contracted the viral disease in August after being bitten by an infected bat, state health officials said on Wednesday.
Source: reuters.com

Electronic health records software often written without doctors’ input: The reason why many doctors find electronic health

Electronic health records software often written without doctors’ input: The reason why many doctors find electronic health records (EHR) difficult to use might be that the software wasn't properly tested, researchers suggests.
Source: reuters.com

Fallacious electrocardiographic interpretation in acute myocardial infarction Rajiv Ananthakrishna. Prasanna Y Katti. Manjunath

Fallacious electrocardiographic interpretation in acute myocardial infarction Rajiv Ananthakrishna. Prasanna Y Katti. Manjunath C Nanjappa. BMJ Case Reports.
Source: bmj.com

F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2013: A new report shows that adult obesity rates hold steady in America,

F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America's Future 2013: A new report shows that adult obesity rates hold steady in America, but remain high. See the key findings and stats in your area.
Source: rwjf.org

An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values David Colquhoun. Royal Society Open Science.

An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values David Colquhoun. Royal Society Open Science.
Source: royalsocietypublishing.org