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Pokemon Go: Exercise impact 'short-lived' - BBC News: Research suggests playing Pokemon Go only had a short-term impact

Pokemon Go: Exercise impact 'short-lived' - BBC News: Research suggests playing Pokemon Go only had a short-term impact on players' increased activity.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective

Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective To estimate the effect of playing Pokémon GO on the number of steps taken daily up to six weeks after installation of the game. Design Cohort study using online survey data. Participants...
Source: bmj.com

Why Americans Die Younger Than Europeans: Americans are more obese, poorer, more isolated, and with less access to health

Why Americans Die Younger Than Europeans: Americans are more obese, poorer, more isolated, and with less access to health care—and it's killing them.
Source: theatlantic.com

Why You Shouldn't Listen to Music While You Work: Unless you’re a truck driver or surgeon, it will hurt your performance.

Why You Shouldn't Listen to Music While You Work: Unless you’re a truck driver or surgeon, it will hurt your performance.
Source: theatlantic.com

End-of-Rotation House Staff Changes Linked to Increased Patient Mortality: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild,

End-of-Rotation House Staff Changes Linked to Increased Patient Mortality: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM Resident and intern service changes are associated with increased mortality among hospitalized patients, suggests a retrospective...
Source: jwatch.org

Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding

Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding how cell assemblies - the long-presumed computational motif - are organized so that the brain can generate cognitive behavior. The Theory of Connectivity proposes that...
Source: frontiersin.org

Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia,

Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia, of Manormead care home near Hindhead needing somewhere else to live
Source: theguardian.com

Digital-native outlets in Europe are more pragmatic than innovative, report suggests

"Digital-native news outlets in Europe tend to be more focused on delivering quality journalism than on creating new business models or innovating about ways news is presented, according to a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that studied 12 online startups in France,...
Source: niemanlab.org

The Results of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) Trial for Increasing Walking and Physical Activity in Underserved

The Results of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) Trial for Increasing Walking and Physical Activity in Underserved African-American C... - PubMed - NCBI
Source: nih.gov

Scotland’s offer to give abortions to Northern Irish women shames Stormont | Patrick Corrigan: Theresa May must follow

Scotland’s offer to give abortions to Northern Irish women shames Stormont | Patrick Corrigan: Theresa May must follow Nicola Sturgeon’s lead in exposing the intransigence of Northern Ireland politicians and the inequality of access to terminations
Source: theguardian.com

Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149 Billion: The country’s goal of lowering its greenhouse gas

Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149 Billion: The country’s goal of lowering its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 is yielding dividends in addition to cleaner air.
Source: ieee.org

Wales organ donations 'encouraging' in year after consent law - BBC News: A new organ donation law, brought in a year ago

Wales organ donations 'encouraging' in year after consent law - BBC News: A new organ donation law, brought in a year ago in Wales, is saving lives, say ministers.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Urine test for fatigue could help prevent accidents: Doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers and bus drivers have at least

Urine test for fatigue could help prevent accidents: Doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers and bus drivers have at least one thing in common -- if they're exhausted at work, they could be putting lives at risk. But the development of a new urine test, reported in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry,...
Source: eurekalert.org

Science historians mark 150 years of 'the tree of life' in Nature article: How can we depict diversity? Biologists of the

Science historians mark 150 years of 'the tree of life' in Nature article: How can we depict diversity? Biologists of the 19th century faced this question as they became aware not only of the huge variety of plant and animal species, but also of the connections between these species. Ultimately it was...
Source: phys.org

New computational model provides a tool for improving the production of valuable drugs: The model allows scientists to make

New computational model provides a tool for improving the production of valuable drugs: The model allows scientists to make comprehensive simulations without doing tedious experiments in the laboratory. Hence, the model will tell the scientist, which metabolic pathways are involved in the production...
Source: eurekalert.org

Oxford University to launch first online 'Mooc' course - BBC News: Oxford University announced its first "massive open online

Oxford University to launch first online 'Mooc' course - BBC News: Oxford University announced its first "massive open online course" - or so-called Mooc - available to students anywhere in the world.
Source: bbc.co.uk

How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost

How Cubans Live as Long as Americans at a Tenth of the Cost
Source: theatlantic.com

Australian woman gets pregnant twice in 10 days - BBC News: An Australian woman gives birth to twins conceived 10 days apart

Australian woman gets pregnant twice in 10 days - BBC News: An Australian woman gives birth to twins conceived 10 days apart after having hormone treatment.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor

Homeopathic Syrup for the Treatment of Pediatric Colds: Randomized Controlled Nonsense is Still Nonsense. "Jacobs and Taylor describe the results of this study as “provocative.” I disagree. After admitting their complete failure to find any benefit in the primary outcome being measured, or in any...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

A whole city vows to help its young people apply for college - The Hechinger Report: JACKSON — Like millions of high-school

A whole city vows to help its young people apply for college - The Hechinger Report: JACKSON — Like millions of high-school seniors nationwide, Murrah High School senior Desmond Jones, 17, is preparing to go to college next fall. Jones is interested in attending the University of Southern Mississippi...
Source: hechingerreport.org