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Treatment of Elevated Cholesterol in 2017: This Viewpoint clarifies 3 treatment options for treating patients with elevated

Treatment of Elevated Cholesterol in 2017: This Viewpoint clarifies 3 treatment options for treating patients with elevated cholesterol levels by discussing patient goals, encouraging lifestyle changes, and using lipid-lowering medication. Harlan M. Krumholz. JAMA.
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How to Prepare Your Team for the Impact of AI in the Workplace. Pam Viedor briefly outlines some suggestions of how. Consider

How to Prepare Your Team for the Impact of AI in the Workplace. Pam Viedor briefly outlines some suggestions of how. Consider redefining your rolesFocus on employee development as much as AI integrationEncourage collaboration between humans and machines
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Why Roman Concrete Endured Thousands of Years of Seawater Pounding, While Ours Can't - ExtremeTech: Roman concrete's durability

Why Roman Concrete Endured Thousands of Years of Seawater Pounding, While Ours Can't - ExtremeTech: Roman concrete's durability and strength blows our own out of the water (in this case, literally). And after years of research, we're getting better at understanding why. It seems that the sea water may...
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Will Butler-Adams on why the future of the foldable bike is electric: "Dearie me," Will Butler-Adams sighs, raising his

Will Butler-Adams on why the future of the foldable bike is electric: "Dearie me," Will Butler-Adams sighs, raising his eyebrows in mock horror as he examines my bike. I’ve arrived at the Brompton factory in Brentford on my much-used fold-up, only to have the company’s chief executive start diagnosing...
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Reducing Excessive Use of Antipsychotic Agents in Nursing Homes: This Viewpoint describes the structure and outcomes of

Reducing Excessive Use of Antipsychotic Agents in Nursing Homes: This Viewpoint describes the structure and outcomes of a national initiative of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to reduce the use of antipsychotics in nursing homes. Jerry H. Gurwitz. Alice Bonner. Donald M. Berwick. JAMA....
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Fake Malaria Meds Meet Their Match in a Handheld Spectrometer: Up to 35 percent of antimalarial drugs are useless. Engineers

Fake Malaria Meds Meet Their Match in a Handheld Spectrometer: Up to 35 percent of antimalarial drugs are useless. Engineers are combatting this counterfeit menace. "The new system uses near-infrared (NIR) spectrometry, directing a beam of NIR light at a pill and recording how the light is absorbed....
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Gigabyte Announces Tiny PC More Powerful and Upgradeable Than Raspberry Pi - ExtremeTech: The Raspberry Pi has proven itself

Gigabyte Announces Tiny PC More Powerful and Upgradeable Than Raspberry Pi - ExtremeTech: The Raspberry Pi has proven itself to be a versatile little computer, and you can get them for pocket change. It's a bit light on power, though. Now, Gigabyte is preparing to launch a similar device called the GA-SBCAP3350.
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Could Google Glass prove to be more useful in professions such as healthcare rather than its (limited) mass release a few

Could Google Glass prove to be more useful in professions such as healthcare rather than its (limited) mass release a few years ago? Doctors' offices are becoming overwhelmed with computers and they can get in the way of patient care. Perhaps a hands-free interface to patient records could mean doctors...

Phrase of the day: Quantum Cryptography. IEEE says Quantum Cryptography System Breaks Daylight Distance Record: New 53-kilometer

Phrase of the day: Quantum Cryptography. IEEE says Quantum Cryptography System Breaks Daylight Distance Record: New 53-kilometer record for quantum cryptography through the air could enable a 24/7 space-based quantum Internet.
Source: ieee.org

Bariatric Surgery Outcomes Seem Best When Pre-Op BMI Is Below 40: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD Having

Bariatric Surgery Outcomes Seem Best When Pre-Op BMI Is Below 40: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD Having a body-mass index below 40 before undergoing bariatric surgery is associated with better outcomes a year later, according to a retrospective … NEJM Journal Watch.
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Vegan advert claiming 'Humane milk is a myth' cleared by ASA - BBC News: Complaints from the dairy industry are dismissed

Vegan advert claiming 'Humane milk is a myth' cleared by ASA - BBC News: Complaints from the dairy industry are dismissed as vegan group's advert is given the green light.
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Cornwall to tackle traffic emissions at Grampound: Work is to begin on an action plan to improve air quality in Grampound,

Cornwall to tackle traffic emissions at Grampound: Work is to begin on an action plan to improve air quality in Grampound, a village in Western Cornwall, following the declaration of the village as an AQMA. This is a tricky problem to solve (other than diverting all the traffic or going all-electric...
Source: airqualitynews.com

We'll put a chip in you so that you can use it at the tuck shop and to open doors. Surely the ID badge could do that? Three

We'll put a chip in you so that you can use it at the tuck shop and to open doors. Surely the ID badge could do that? Three Square Market Microchips Employees Company-Wide
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Frailty among older persons living with HIV: a new burden for their clinical care: Alfonso Zamudio-Rodriguez holds a master’s

Frailty among older persons living with HIV: a new burden for their clinical care: Alfonso Zamudio-Rodriguez holds a master’s degree in Public Health and is interested in frailty of older persons living with HIV. He develops his work in the department of Dr. Ávila-Funes @geriatri…
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Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted

Ghana converts obsolete telecomms dish into radio telescope - physicsworld.com "Scientists in Ghana have successfully converted a communications antenna into a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope. The country is the first partner of the African VLBI Network (AVN) to complete a full...
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The new survivors and a new era for trauma research: Karim Brohi and Martin Schreiber, Guest Editors of the Special Issue

The new survivors and a new era for trauma research: Karim Brohi and Martin Schreiber, Guest Editors of the Special Issue on Trauma, describe a new era in exploration of the biology of injury response and translation of new opportunities into clinical practice. Karim Brohi. Martin Schreiber. PLOS Medicine....
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The effect of automatically generated reminders delivered to providers on paper on quality of care and patient outcomes

The effect of automatically generated reminders delivered to providers on paper on quality of care and patient outcomes | Cochrane
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How John McCain’s Brain Became 'Fake News': A polarizing debate about a reversible cause of dementia

How John McCain’s Brain Became 'Fake News': A polarizing debate about a reversible cause of dementia
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Coconut oil 'as unhealthy as beef fat and butter' - BBC News: It is packed with saturated fat which can raise "bad" cholesterol

Coconut oil 'as unhealthy as beef fat and butter' - BBC News: It is packed with saturated fat which can raise "bad" cholesterol and pose a heart risk, say US experts.
Source: bbc.co.uk