Methods for monitoring blood glucose in pregnant women with diabetes to improve outcomes | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org
85 percent of Americans use mobile devices to access news — and seniors are driving that number up: Most people in the U.S. — 85 percent of U.S. adults — have used a mobile device to access news at some point, up from around just 50 percent in 2013. But put aside any assumptions about which groups...
Source: niemanlab.org
The volunteer blood bikers saving lives, NHS time and money: Motorcyclist couriers work throughout the night ferrying blood products, breast milk and test samples to and from hospitals
Source: theguardian.com
Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox — Lessons for Health Care — NEJM: Good article from RAND Corporation. There is ongoing debate about the wisdom of the $27 billion federal investment driving the adoption of health information technology (IT) under the Health Information Technology for Economic...
Source: nejm.org
Race vs Burden in Understanding Health Equity: To the Editor Dr Kindig discussed the concepts of rate and burden in terms of population health equity. We question several of the concepts put forth in his Viewpoint.1 Kindig’s proposition that the statistical burden of white health inequity has been...
Source: jamanetwork.com
It's time for academics to take back control of research journals: The evolution to a high-profit industry was never planned. Academics need to make the case for lower-cost journals
Source: theguardian.com
Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record: Ochre is found at numerous Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites and plays a key role in early modern human archaeology. Here we analyse the largest known East African MSA ochre assemblage,...
Source: plos.org
Impact evaluation of different cash-based intervention modalities on child and maternal nutritional status in Sindh Province, Pakistan, at 6 mo and at 1 y: A cluster randomised controlled trial: A cluster randomised trial reveals cash-based interventions reduce stunting in children from very poor families...
Source: plos.org
Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals: This study uses national Medicare data to compare 30-day mortality among patients hospitalized or undergoing surgical procedures in teaching vs nonteaching hospitals between 2012 and 2014. Laura G. Burke. Austin B. Frakt. Dhruv Khullar....
Source: jamanetwork.com
WHO elects first ever African director-general after tense vote: Former Ethiopian health minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to lead World Health Organisation after a long and fraught campaign
Source: theguardian.com
That feeling when you see your code (or at least an interpretation of it) in the innards of some project. I've been asked to help look around the innards of onexamination again to make it even slicker and better. Found a lovely Chebyshev rational function staring out at us from the code. "After all...
Source: linkedin.com
DEcentralised Citizens Owned Data Ecosystem. EU funded project. "Citizens give up data in blockchain project to improve cities: The DECODE project will give residents of Barcelona and Amsterdam more control over how their personal data is harnessed by local government and businesses"
Source: newscientist.com
Tax plastic drinking straws, firm says - BBC News: A waste disposal firm claims that plastic drinking straws are "the ultimate in human wastefulness".
Source: bbc.co.uk
Modern electioneering: Conservatives buy 'dementia tax' Google ad as criticism of policy grows: Tactic shows Tories are willing to adopt pejorative term for policy in order to tackle criticism of social care proposals
Source: theguardian.com
Pearson is pulling back from its deal with Knewton to build its own capabilities in adaptive learning. One of the hazards of dealing with big partners in an industry clearly is that they use you for their own innovation. Adaptation and personalisation of learning is an emerging theme in education but...
Source: edsurge.com
Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading tech gurus feel it won't catch on. There are great difficulties evaluating emerging technology when they are on the "hype curve". The potential of a public record or ledger of...
Source: tbray.org
Consent issues about Google DeepMind raised after leaked letter but its analysis of 1.6 million patient records to identify those at risk of acute renal failure seems to be covered by 'implied consent'. "Google DeepMind patient app legality questioned. A leaked letter throws doubt on the legal basis...
Source: bbc.co.uk
NHSbuntu - a modern, secure, open source, operating system being considered by Jeremy Hunt for the NHS. It seems to have taken the recent ransomware attack on the ageing Windows XP infrastructure of the NHS to alert those in charge to an innovation that has already been developed from within it. NHSbuntu...
Source: openhealthhub.org
Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the new old fear of manipulating the masses: "Fears of mass manipulation by new media are as old as mass media themselves. Almost every expansion of media or new media technology provoked paranoia about the contagious emotions of 'the masses.'"
Source: niemanlab.org