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UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring

UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring kits due to fears official figures are not capturing dangerous pollution levels, say Friends of the Earth
Source: theguardian.com

Can Internet-based interventions help people to stop smoking?  | Cochrane

Can Internet-based interventions help people to stop smoking?  | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org

Spiral drawing test detects signs of Parkinson's - BBC News: Australian researchers have developed software that measures

Spiral drawing test detects signs of Parkinson's - BBC News: Australian researchers have developed software that measures writing speed and pen pressure.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Adult learning theories: Implications for learning and teaching in medical education: AMEE Guide No. 83: There are many

Adult learning theories: Implications for learning and teaching in medical education: AMEE Guide No. 83: There are many theories that explain how adults learn and each has its own merits. This Guide explains and explores the more commonly used ones and how they can be used to enhance student and faculty...
Source: tandfonline.com

IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling

IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care. It's Nowhere Close - Slashdot: "IBM began selling Watson to recommend the best cancer treatments to doctors around the world three years ago. But is it really doing its job? Not so much. An investigation by Stat found that the supercomputer...
Source: slashdot.org

Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe: These early humans were using tar to make tools long

Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe: These early humans were using tar to make tools long before Homo sapiens did.
Source: arstechnica.com

New Nutrition Study Changes Nothing : Why the science of healthy eating appears confusing—but isn’t

New Nutrition Study Changes Nothing : Why the science of healthy eating appears confusing—but isn’t
Source: theatlantic.com

NHS to spend £100m bringing in up to 3,000 GPs from abroad: Recruiters will earn about £20,000 for each new GP as part

NHS to spend £100m bringing in up to 3,000 GPs from abroad: Recruiters will earn about £20,000 for each new GP as part of the NHS England initiative to alleviate cripping shortages
Source: theguardian.com

Germany turns refugees into mental health counsellors for their peers: Project counters lack of mental health care by helping

Germany turns refugees into mental health counsellors for their peers: Project counters lack of mental health care by helping migrants to teach coping skills and offering asylum seekers a listening ear
Source: theguardian.com

Chatbots as a Patient Engagement solution – Florence.chat "Chatbots are computer programs that are able to conduct a

Chatbots as a Patient Engagement solution – Florence.chat "Chatbots are computer programs that are able to conduct a conversation and are typically used in dialog systems for various practical purposes including customer service or information acquisition. Despite their creation more than 60...
Source: florence.chat

A qualitative exploration of student perceptions of the impact of progress tests on learning and emotional wellbeing: Progress

A qualitative exploration of student perceptions of the impact of progress tests on learning and emotional wellbeing: Progress testing was introduced to the MBChB programme at the University of Auckland in 2013. As there has been a focus in published literature on aspects relating to the format or function...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Improving MRCP PACES pass rates through the introduction of a regional multifaceted support framework. "Our innovative,

Improving MRCP PACES pass rates through the introduction of a regional multifaceted support framework. "Our innovative, cost-effective teaching framework for PACES preparation has improved exam outcomes and facilitated swift junior doctor career progression, while raising the profile of the trust. Furthermore,...
Source: bmj.com

Smoking linked to frailty in older adults: A recent paper published in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British

Smoking linked to frailty in older adults: A recent paper published in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, finds that current smoking in older people increases the risk of developing frailty, though f…
Source: wordpress.com

Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is

Continuing professional development: progress beyond continuing medical education: Continuing medical education (CME) is rapidly evolving into competency-based continuing professional development (CPD) and this is driving change in self-directed CPD programs undertaken by individual practitioners as...
Source: amegroups.com

Head of stroke programme condemns HSE inertia "Widespread inertia in the health service is leaving Ireland unprepared

Head of stroke programme condemns HSE inertia "Widespread inertia in the health service is leaving Ireland unprepared to cope with a huge increase in the number of stroke patients over the next decade, the outgoing head of the national stroke programme has warned. ...
Source: irishtimes.com

Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs and Policies are a Failure | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs and Policies are a Failure | Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health "Two scientific review papers released today show that abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and policies in the United States are ineffective as they do not delay sexual initiation...
Source: columbia.edu

Using machine learning to improve patient care : New CSAIL research employs many types of medical data, including electronic

Using machine learning to improve patient care : New CSAIL research employs many types of medical data, including electronic health records, to predict outcomes in hospitals. Rachel Gordon | CSAIL.
Source: mit.edu

Everyone's an expert, but a computer program may be able to pick the best ones

Everyone's an expert, but a computer program may be able to pick the best ones
Source: phys.org

4 maps that will change how you see migration in Europe: These maps show European migration in numbers – with surprising

4 maps that will change how you see migration in Europe: These maps show European migration in numbers – with surprising results.
Source: weforum.org

The Future of Education is the Microdegree. "Microdegrees, such as Udacity’s nanodegrees, appear to be here to stay.

The Future of Education is the Microdegree. "Microdegrees, such as Udacity’s nanodegrees, appear to be here to stay. The reason is simple. Increasingly, what people learn during college holds little or no relevance to what they end up doing on the job. This isn’t because what they are learning is...
Source: elearninginside.com