Science funding: Will 'picking winners' work? - BBC News: Why has the government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?
Source: bbc.co.uk
Kenya presidential election cancelled by Supreme Court - BBC News: The Supreme Court orders a new vote citing irregularities, sparking joy among opposition supporters.
Source: bbc.co.uk
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 migrants to teach coping skills and offering asylum seekers a listening ear
Source: theguardian.com
Collaborative Care Linked to Better Outcomes in Substance Use Disorders: By Kelly Young
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Patients with alcohol or opioid use disorder treated with a collaborative care model in primary care are twice as likely to receive evidence-based...
Source: jwatch.org
South Korea mulling world's first robot tax | ZDNet: Controversial idea seems to formally acknowledge a tough future for workers
Source: zdnet.com
Clinical trials revolution could change the future of medical research: With the stakes in clinical research so high, today sees the launch of a new and much-needed way of reporting clinical trials
Source: theguardian.com
The impact of video games on training surgeons in the 21st century. - PubMed - NCBI
Source: nih.gov
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 "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
Thorium could power the next generation of nuclear reactors: The first thorium research project in 45 years has kicked off in the Netherlands with the goal of making thorium work in a molten salt reactor
Source: newscientist.com
Whole grain cereals for cardiovascular disease | Cochrane "There is insufficient evidence from RCTs of an effect of whole grain diets on cardiovascular outcomes or on major CVD risk factors such as blood lipids and blood pressure. Trials were at unclear or high risk of bias with small sample sizes and...
Source: cochrane.org
4 maps that will change how you see migration in Europe: These maps show European migration in numbers – with surprising results.
Source: weforum.org
Jeremy Hunt can attack me all he wants – but he is wrong to say the NHS is working | Stephen Hawking "Hunt doesn't deny that he dismissed research contradicting his claim of excess deaths due to poorer hospital care and staffing at the weekend. He admits he relied on one paper by Professor Nick Freemantle...
Source: theguardian.com
Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study: Dating from 1,000 years before Pythagoras’s theorem, the Babylonian clay tablet is a trigonometric table more accurate than any today, say researchers
Source: theguardian.com
Theresa May could be paving the way to change her policy on foreign students: The Government will today pave the way for a climbdown over Theresa May’s controversial policy of counting foreign students as migrants in official immigration statistics. Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, will ask her independent...
Source: independent.co.uk
Baby boomers' drink and drug misuse needs urgent action, warn experts: By 2020, the number of over-50s receiving treatment for substance misuse problems is expected to double in Europe and treble in the US, say researchers
Source: theguardian.com
MRI scan that can predict stroke risk has 'promise to save lives': Scientists at Oxford University develop non-invasive technique to measure amount of cholesterol in carotid plaques
Source: theguardian.com
RCGP welcomes international recruitment boost to ease GP shortages
Source: rcgp.org.uk
Green man road crossings 'too fast' - BBC News: Guidance calls for councils in England to make it easier for elderly and disabled people to cross the road.
Source: bbc.co.uk