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The Unmet Need for Clinical Guidelines on the Management of Patients with Plaque Psoriasis in Africa and the Middle East

The Unmet Need for Clinical Guidelines on the Management of Patients with Plaque Psoriasis in Africa and the Middle East - PubMed: There is an urgent unmet need for comprehensive clinical guidelines on the management of patients with plaque psoriasis in Africa and the Middle East. Region-specific studies...
Source: nih.gov

Two questions may be enough - screening for depression in patients with psoriasis

Two questions may be enough - screening for depression in patients with psoriasis: a multicenter study - PubMed: In specialized psoriatic outpatient clinics, a BDI-II score ≥ 13 was present in almost every fourth patient despite a low median PASI. The Whooley questions might be easy to use as a screening...
Source: nih.gov

Supporting migrants and refugees with posttraumatic stress disorder: development, pilot implementation, and pilot evaluation

Supporting migrants and refugees with posttraumatic stress disorder: development, pilot implementation, and pilot evaluation of a continuing interprofessional education for healthcare providers: Refugees and migrants face an increased risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Adequate...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The Sandwich principle: assessing the didactic effect in lectures on

The Sandwich principle: assessing the didactic effect in lectures on “cleft lips and palates”: A teaching concept, that takes individual learning and personal belongings into account, is called the “sandwich principle.” This didactic method is an educational concept that alternates consecutively...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Proposal for a New Tool to Evaluate a Serious Game

Proposal for a New Tool to Evaluate a Serious Game: The current enthusiasm of generations of students for video games and the marked interest of training institutions for the use of playful strategies, which facilitate learning, has encouraged the development and use of formative games called Serious...
Source: online-journals.org

Google Brings Back Human Moderators for YouTube Content

Google Brings Back Human Moderators for YouTube Content | Digital Trends: More human moderators are going back to work to oversee YouTube content, taking over from automated systems that admittedly took down some videos erroneously. "YouTube revealed in late August that in the three months prior, 11.4...
Source: digitaltrends.com

How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

How the oil industry made us doubt climate change: Energy companies stand accused of trying to downplay their contribution to global warming.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Performance of China

Performance of China’s new medical licensing examination for rural general practice: To evaluate the performance of China’s new medical licensing examination (MLE) for rural general practice, which determines the number of qualified doctors who can provide primary care for China’s rural residents,...
Source: biomedcentral.com

China Chopper still active 9 years later

China Chopper still active 9 years later: A blog from the world class Intelligence Group, Talos, Cisco's Intelligence Group
Source: talosintelligence.com

CISA: Chinese state hackers are exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Exchange bugs | ZDNet

CISA: Chinese state hackers are exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Exchange bugs | ZDNet
Source: zdnet.com

Scientists May Have Found Evidence of Life in the Clouds of Venus

Scientists May Have Found Evidence of Life in the Clouds of Venus - ExtremeTech: An international team from MIT, Cardiff University, and other institutions has identified a compound called phosphine in Venus' murky atmosphere that is strongly associated with life.
Source: extremetech.com

A Systematic Review of Promising Therapeutic Targets in Hidradenitis Suppurativa: A Critical Evaluation of Mechanistic and

A Systematic Review of Promising Therapeutic Targets in Hidradenitis Suppurativa: A Critical Evaluation of Mechanistic and Clinical Relevance - PubMed: This systematic review identifies and critically evaluates the mechanistic and clinical evidence of new promising therapeutic targets in hidradenitis...
Source: nih.gov

More progress needed to achieve gender equality in NHS leadership - Hospital Dr

More progress needed to achieve gender equality in NHS leadership - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less newsworthy

Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less newsworthy: Plus: "Cultural competence" through diverse sourcing; limitations in how journalists represent public opinion; and lessons from studying 7,000 news push notifications.
Source: niemanlab.org

Augmented reality could be the geology classroom

Augmented reality could be the geology classroom’s killer app "Geology is a very spatial science and can require a lot of 3-D visualization. Simple physical models (not to mention rocks) have long been used to aid teaching about things like faults or crystalline mineral structure. But these things...
Source: arstechnica.com

A deep learning system for differential diagnosis of skin diseases - PubMed: Skin conditions affect 1.9 billion people.

A deep learning system for differential diagnosis of skin diseases - PubMed: Skin conditions affect 1.9 billion people. Because of a shortage of dermatologists, most cases are seen instead by general practitioners with lower diagnostic accuracy. We present a deep learning system (DLS) to provide a differential...
Source: nih.gov

EU says one in eight deaths is linked to pollution: The bloc's environment agency says pollution contributes to hundreds

EU says one in eight deaths is linked to pollution: The bloc's environment agency says pollution contributes to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.
Source: bbc.co.uk

This 3.2 gigapixel cauliflower is the largest photograph ever taken: To test the sensors in the largest digital camera ever

This 3.2 gigapixel cauliflower is the largest photograph ever taken: To test the sensors in the largest digital camera ever built, scientists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory focused in on a Romanesco cauliflower, producing one of the biggest digital photographs ever taken
Source: newscientist.com

9 errors of judgement about the pandemic

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral: As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.
Source: theatlantic.com

Facial Masking for Covid-19

"Facial Masking for Covid-19 — Potential for “Variolation” as We Await a Vaccine | NEJM: Facial Masking for Covid-19 Increasing the proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infections that are asymptomatic with the simple public health measure of universal masking might reduce the severity of disease and ensure...
Source: nejm.org