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‘I lost my leg to diabetes’: Every year tens of thousands of Pakistanis are forced to have amputations as a result of

‘I lost my leg to diabetes’: Every year tens of thousands of Pakistanis are forced to have amputations as a result of diabetes.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Mum's Lyme Disease hell after tick bite: Rachel Foulkes-Davies says she still suffers from blurred vision and headaches

Mum's Lyme Disease hell after tick bite: Rachel Foulkes-Davies says she still suffers from blurred vision and headaches three years after being bitten by a tick in her garden.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Backward design - a method of designing educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and

Backward design - a method of designing educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and forms of assessment.
Source: wikipedia.org

The words we use in Diabetes. A language matters booklet from NHS England introduced by Partha Kar about the choice of words

The words we use in Diabetes. A language matters booklet from NHS England introduced by Partha Kar about the choice of words when communicating with people about diabetes. Really nice piece of work explaining how to bring more empathy to your conversations and less stigma.
Source: england.nhs.uk

Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration

Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany researchers are working on a sensor and software package that would help people developing dementia to slow down the disease progression [by this I presume...
Source: medgadget.com

Anheuser-Busch pulls millions from controversial NIH alcohol study: Questions about the study could “undermine its lasting

Anheuser-Busch pulls millions from controversial NIH alcohol study: Questions about the study could “undermine its lasting credibility,” company said.
Source: arstechnica.com

Cloud-based quantum computer takes on deuteron and wins: Optimized algorithms plus cloud-based quantum computers actually

Cloud-based quantum computer takes on deuteron and wins: Optimized algorithms plus cloud-based quantum computers actually work. Classical computers can solve these problems but this shows that quabtum computers can be programmed to do them as well ... but the progress is slow.
Source: arstechnica.com

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Guardian, written by Neil Lawrence, the founding editor of the freely available journal Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: Machine learning has demonstrated...
Source: slashdot.org

Electric Scooter Wars Heat Up in San Francisco and Beyond: The VC cash is flying as cities fling regulations at this surprisingly

Electric Scooter Wars Heat Up in San Francisco and Beyond: The VC cash is flying as cities fling regulations at this surprisingly seductive method of transportation. I haven't tried an electric scooter but I'm not sure how it would cope with the hills in Cornwall. Could this personal mode of transport...
Source: ieee.org

The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a teeny bit scarier: Since 2011, the share

The scariest chart in Mary Meeker’s slide deck for newspapers has gotten even a teeny bit scarier: Since 2011, the share of Americans' media consumption that happens in print has dropped about 40 percent. But the share of American ad dollars that go to print has dropped more than 60 percent. Print...
Source: niemanlab.org

It’s time we stopped dismissing women’s health problems: Controversy about cervical smear tests is just the latest in

It’s time we stopped dismissing women’s health problems: Controversy about cervical smear tests is just the latest in a series concerning women’s health. It’s time to talk about inequality in the doctor’s surgery
Source: newscientist.com

Design Matters: The Snellen Eye Chart - The Scholarly Kitchen: Interesting background on the functional design that went

Design Matters: The Snellen Eye Chart - The Scholarly Kitchen: Interesting background on the functional design that went into the letters on the eye chart used to test visual acuity.
Source: sspnet.org

Simulation based education and expansive learning in health professional education: A discussion: The aim of this paper

Simulation based education and expansive learning in health professional education: A discussion: The aim of this paper is to discuss the application of Simulation Based Education (SBE) in nursing and wider health professional education. Simulated Learning (SL) is discussed in relation to its history,...
Source: journals.sfu.ca

Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health educators do?

Zika rumors got three times more shares than real Zika stories. What can health educators do?
Source: niemanlab.org

First 3D-printed human corneas | Kurzweil

First 3D-printed human corneas | Kurzweil
Source: kurzweilai.net

Aligning an undergraduate psychological medicine subject with the mental health needs of the local region: The James Cook

Aligning an undergraduate psychological medicine subject with the mental health needs of the local region: The James Cook University (JCU) medical school recently revised its Year 2 human development and behaviour module to be more relevant and practical for students, and more aligned with the mental...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The Greatest Failure in What used to be Called Medicine | Dr. David Healy

The Greatest Failure in What used to be Called Medicine | Dr. David Healy
Source: davidhealy.org

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS Computational Biology! In 2017 PLOS Computational Biology launched the "PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize" program with the aim to recognize some of the journal's most outstanding...
Source: plos.org

Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney: The sea will keep the data centre cool, but the computers onboard will not be repairable

Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney: The sea will keep the data centre cool, but the computers onboard will not be repairable if they break down. An interesting experiment which saves on the enormous cooling costs of data centres and will evaluate the failure rate and performance of the IT. What happens...
Source: bbc.co.uk

Phrase of the day: Elaborative Interrogation - Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is

Phrase of the day: Elaborative Interrogation - Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true. Evidence suggests it is moderately effective and should be very familiar for anyone with young children in their family. It is one of ten techniques frequently used by learners...
Source: psychologicalscience.org