Rise in 'preventable' hospital readmissions: Undiagnosed pneumonia and pressure sores are behind the rise in hospitals in England.
Source: bbc.co.uk
‘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 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 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 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 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 credibility,” company said.
Source: arstechnica.com
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 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
A Brief History of Intel CPUs, Part 1: The 4004 to the Pentium Pro - ExtremeTech: We dive into the history of Intel CPUs and the x86 architecture. From the very first microprocessor, through to the father of modern CPUs.
Source: extremetech.com
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 a series concerning women’s health. It’s time to talk about inequality in the doctor’s surgery
Source: newscientist.com
Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing: Mature fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us.
Source: arstechnica.com
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 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
20 important takeaways for learning world from Mary Meeker's brilliant tech trends: Mary Meeker’s slide deck has a reputation of being the Delphic Oracle of tech. But, at 294 slides it’s a lot to take in. Don’t worry, I...
Source: blogspot.com
APOD: 2018 June 4 - Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
Source: nasa.gov
Politics is way worse because we use an atrocious 18th century voting system. Aaron Hamlin has a viable plan to fix it.
"Say there’s an independent or a third party candidate that you really like, but you’re looking at them and you think: ‘God, this person is never going to win, what I should...
Source: 80000hours.org
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
Does more cancer spending increase survival? Healthcare Economist asks ... the answer seems to be yes.
Source: healthcare-economist.com