Thinking Allowed

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'Thousands' of known bugs found in pacemaker code - BBC News: Thousands of bugs have been found in the code used to keep

'Thousands' of known bugs found in pacemaker code - BBC News: Thousands of bugs have been found in the code used to keep pacemakers functioning, say researchers
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Don't believe what people say about the angry, disaffected Muslim youth: Hundreds of “We love MCR” banners coursed

Don't believe what people say about the angry, disaffected Muslim youth: Hundreds of “We love MCR” banners coursed their way through central Manchester last week, along with signs proclaiming, “Love for all, hatred for none”. Young Muslim women and men proudly displayed them in an act of defiance...
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Unraveling the IT Productivity Paradox — Lessons for Health Care — NEJM: Good article from RAND Corporation. There

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...
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Race vs Burden in Understanding Health Equity: To the Editor Dr Kindig discussed the concepts of rate and burden in terms

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...
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It's time for academics to take back control of research journals: The evolution to a high-profit industry was never planned.

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

Juno Spacecraft Reveals Spectacular Cyclones At Jupiter's Poles: The NASA has spotted enormous cyclones at the gas giant's

Juno Spacecraft Reveals Spectacular Cyclones At Jupiter's Poles: The NASA has spotted enormous cyclones at the gas giant's north and south poles. The probe has also returned other data that have project scientists scratching their heads.
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Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave

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,...
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"DECODE provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for

"DECODE provides tools that put individuals in control of whether they keep their personal data private or share it for the public good." "DECODE is an experimental project to develop practical alternatives to how we use the internet today - four European pilots will show the wider social value that...
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Impact evaluation of different cash-based intervention modalities on child and maternal nutritional status in Sindh Province,

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...
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Association Between Teaching Status and Mortality in US Hospitals: This study uses national Medicare data to compare 30-day

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....
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How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars – Backchannel: Pay attention: Typography isn’t just catchy visuals. It can also

How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars – Backchannel: Pay attention: Typography isn’t just catchy visuals. It can also be dangerous.
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Quackery infiltrates The BMJ: As quackery in the form of “integrative medicine” has increasingly been “integrated”

Quackery infiltrates The BMJ: As quackery in the form of “integrative medicine” has increasingly been “integrated” into medicine, medical journals are starting to notice and succumb to the temptation to …
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

Modern electioneering: Conservatives buy 'dementia tax' Google ad as criticism of policy grows: Tactic shows Tories are

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
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40,000 Brits die every year from air pollution, yet there's nothing about it in the Tory manifesto: The Conservative manifesto

40,000 Brits die every year from air pollution, yet there's nothing about it in the Tory manifesto: The Conservative manifesto has confirmed what many have feared for a long time: Tories are unable to be serious about air quality.  In the 88-page document, which will set out the direction of Theresa...
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Philippines president bans smoking in public, with offenders facing jail: Rodrigo Duterte, a former smoker himself, defies

Philippines president bans smoking in public, with offenders facing jail: Rodrigo Duterte, a former smoker himself, defies country’s powerful tobacco lobby to sign order that also outlaws ‘vaping’
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Bolstering the workforce is the key to the survival of the NHS | Niall Dickson: Falling staff numbers demand radical answers

Bolstering the workforce is the key to the survival of the NHS | Niall Dickson: Falling staff numbers demand radical answers if we are to meet the challenges that face the health service
Source: theguardian.com

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UK's first proton beam machine arrives at Newport clinic - BBC News: The UK's first high-energy proton beam machine will

UK's first proton beam machine arrives at Newport clinic - BBC News: The UK's first high-energy proton beam machine will offer treatments next year, the firm behind it says.
Source: bbc.co.uk