AI Medicine Comes to Africa’s Rural Clinics: Smartphone-based diagnostic tools with an artificial intelligence upgrade could save millions of lives
Source: ieee.org
“Anger is a useful metric” and other evil tips for making money off hyper-partisan content: Plus: A quick way to make money off other people's content, an invitation to fact-check U.K. local news, and BuzzBeed vs. BuzzFeed.
Source: niemanlab.org
Mortality and kidnapping estimates for the Yazidi population in the area of Mount Sinjar, Iraq, in August 2014: A retrospective household survey Valeria Cetorelli. Isaac Sasson. Nazar Shabila. Gilbert Burnham. PLOS Medicine.
Source: plos.org
The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks: Despite debate over how many "deaths" air pollution causes, it is clear bad air damages our health, so attempts to delay rules on reducing it must be resisted
Source: newscientist.com
Cancer Drug Fund didn’t deliver value ‘to patients or society’: A fund that spent more than £1 billion on expensive new cancer drugs in England had little clinical benefit, a study of 29 medicines has concluded
Source: newscientist.com
Donald Clark Plan B: Snapchat’s smart pivot into an AR company but is AR ready for learning?
Source: blogspot.co.uk
Long term gluten consumption in adults without celiac disease and risk of coronary heart disease: prospective cohort study: Objective To examine the association of long term intake of gluten with the development of incident coronary heart disease.
Design Prospective cohort study.
Setting and participants...
Source: bmj.com
Introducing a New Junior Doctor Electronic Weekend Handover on an Orthopaedic Ward Siddharth Maroo. Dipak Raj. BMJ Quality Improvement Reports.
Source: bmj.com
A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify pedagogical approaches and gameplay techniques involved in the development of serious games for teaching scientific courses in general especially programming languages. The concept...
Source: online-journals.org
Polar Sea Ice at Record Lows : Image of the Day: In 2017, the Arctic maximum and Antarctic minimum extents of sea ice plunged to record lows.
Source: nasa.gov
Alphabet's influence. Good round-up of past initiatives in health technology from Google and current areas of interest to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. "Alphabet has quietly become the most influential player in Silicon Valley health tech: Alphabet has more than a dozen teams focused on health across...
Source: cnbc.com
Document Moved
Source: learningsolutionsmag.com
Inpatient Rehab No Better Than Home Exercise After Total Knee Arthroplasty: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
Inpatient rehab appears to offer no benefit over a supervised home program for patients recovering from total knee arthroplasty, a JAMA study finds.
Some...
Source: jwatch.org
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...
Source: jwatch.org
Best anti-ageing exercise (for a part of mitochondrial metabolism) is high intensity interval training: "Exercise is the best anti-ageing pill, but which routine is most effective? A study reveals that HIIT is better than weight training at rejuvenating cells ..." says New Scientist magazine. "HIIT...
Source: newscientist.com
Buoy | Understand Your Symptoms: Buoy is a digital health tool that helps you – from the moment you get sick – start your care on the right foot. https://www.facebook.com/buoyhealth/.
Source: buoyhealth.com
What’s the “Take Home” from Research on Dementia Trends?: Eric Larson and Kenneth Langa discuss whether the risk of dementia is increasing or decreasing over time. Eric B. Larson. Kenneth M. Langa. PLOS Medicine.
Source: plos.org
How Our Presales Chatbot Saves the Marketing Team 70% More Time: The inbound leads from our website are first handled by marketing executives and latter passed to the sales department. The mode of…
Source: chatbotsmagazine.com
What Happened When We Took the SCiO Food Analyzer Grocery Shopping: Who needs infrared spectrometers in their phones? People who hate buying tasteless produce or mystery cheese
Source: ieee.org
'7lbs in 7 days' retreat at Juicy Oasis Feb 20-27th 2016. Blog about the retreat. Just returned from a week at Juicy Oasis in Portugal - a health and spa retreat based on a juicing diet run by Jason Vale. It was a lovely sunny escape from the February cold and rain in the UK. The main features were...
Source: google.com