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Soft Robotic Finger Based on Shape Memory Alloys for Future Prosthetic Hands | Medgadget: At Florida Atlantic University

Soft Robotic Finger Based on Shape Memory Alloys for Future Prosthetic Hands | Medgadget: At Florida Atlantic University (FAU) engineers are developing new technology to activate the movement of robotic fingers that may boost the capabilities of
Source: medgadget.com

Don't Panic - End Poverty

Video "Hans Rosling asks: Has the UN gone mad? The United Nations just announced their boldest goal ever: To eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, already by 2030. Looking at the realities of extremely poor people the goal seems impossible. The rains didn’t fall in Malawi this year....
Source: gapminder.org

Scale of NHS deficits to be revealed - BBC News: The scale of the growing financial problems in the NHS in England will

Scale of NHS deficits to be revealed - BBC News: The scale of the growing financial problems in the NHS in England will become clearer later, when the latest accounts are published.
Source: bbc.co.uk

MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' - Slashdot

MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

Who Controls Diet Guidelines? Industry.: Meat producers showed dominance over nutrition experts this week.

Who Controls Diet Guidelines? Industry.: Meat producers showed dominance over nutrition experts this week.
Source: theatlantic.com

Increase in Self-Harm Emergencies Noted After Bariatric Surgery: By Joe Elia Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard

Increase in Self-Harm Emergencies Noted After Bariatric Surgery: By Joe Elia Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM Patients undergoing bariatric surgery show a small but definite increase in self-harm emergencies after the procedure, researchers report in JAMA Surgery...
Source: jwatch.org

The Hunt file: doctors' dossier of patients 'put at risk' by health secretary: Medics compile list of names whose lives,

The Hunt file: doctors' dossier of patients 'put at risk' by health secretary: Medics compile list of names whose lives, they say, were put in danger because they were misled by Jeremy Hunt into thinking hospitals do not provide 24/7 care
Source: theguardian.com

Electronic health records software often written without doctors’ input: The reason why many doctors find electronic health

Electronic health records software often written without doctors’ input: The reason why many doctors find electronic health records (EHR) difficult to use might be that the software wasn't properly tested, researchers suggests.
Source: reuters.com

Laparoscopic Lavage for Perforated Diverticulitis? Probably Not.: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild,

Laparoscopic Lavage for Perforated Diverticulitis? Probably Not.: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM Laparoscopic lavage is no better than colon resection for treating perforated diverticulitis — and might even lead to worse outcomes...
Source: jwatch.org

Migration rules need re-think - NHS boss - BBC News: A re-think of immigration rules which protect ballet dancers but not

Migration rules need re-think - NHS boss - BBC News: A re-think of immigration rules which protect ballet dancers but not vital foreign nurses need re-thinking, the head of the NHS in England says.
Source: bbc.co.uk

The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret. “We live at a time of the greatest development progress among the

The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret. “We live at a time of the greatest development progress among the global poor in the history of the world,” notes Steven Radelet, a development economist and Georgetown University professor
Source: nytimes.com

Dear Ms Morgan, your thinking is from the stone age : Why does an anonymous authoritarian prescribe what our children learn?

Dear Ms Morgan, your thinking is from the stone age : Why does an anonymous authoritarian prescribe what our children learn? Instructing teachers on what they ‘should’ do takes away the excitement of discovery
Source: theguardian.com

This junior doctor contract puts patients in danger | Dan Poulter: Cutting the pay and worsening working conditions will

This junior doctor contract puts patients in danger | Dan Poulter: Cutting the pay and worsening working conditions will not attract new doctors to hard-to-recruit specialisms such as A&E. But more than that, it could compromise patient care
Source: theguardian.com

Tory conference: New GP contract for seven-day service - BBC News: GPs in England are to be offered a voluntary contract

Tory conference: New GP contract for seven-day service - BBC News: GPs in England are to be offered a voluntary contract to provide seven-day-a-week cover for patients, David Cameron announces.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Big Data has a degree problem by Meris Stansbury - e-Learning Feeds: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)

Big Data has a degree problem by Meris Stansbury - e-Learning Feeds: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reveals that the growing data science field can pull from an incredible number of statistics majors, but it’s still not enough.
Source: elearningfeeds.com

Researchers design 'biological flashlight' using light-producing ability of shrimp: Using the natural light-producing ability

Researchers design 'biological flashlight' using light-producing ability of shrimp: Using the natural light-producing ability of deep-sea shrimp, a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher and a team of scientists developed a new imaging tool to help cancer researchers better track tumor...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Disease free water, a global health challenge, commands an international team effort: Peter Vikesland, an expert in the

Disease free water, a global health challenge, commands an international team effort: Peter Vikesland, an expert in the optimization of drinking water disinfection practices and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, is the principal investigator for a new five-year $3.6...
Source: eurekalert.org

NHS meningitis B vaccination programme begins across the UK: Jab to protect against potentially fatal disease has been added

NHS meningitis B vaccination programme begins across the UK: Jab to protect against potentially fatal disease has been added to NHS childhood immunisation programme
Source: theguardian.com

Call for Britain to over-ride patents on Roche cancer drug: A group of patients and campaigners has called on Britain's

Call for Britain to over-ride patents on Roche cancer drug: A group of patients and campaigners has called on Britain's health minister to over-ride patents protecting Roche's expensive breast cancer drug Kadcyla to allow for the import or manufacture of cut-price copies.
Source: reuters.com

How to “nudge” smokers to reduce tobacco use? - reduce the nicotine in cigarettes. Now@NEJM: Health problems due to

How to “nudge” smokers to reduce tobacco use? - reduce the nicotine in cigarettes. Now@NEJM: Health problems due to smoking account for 6 million deaths annually and are the leading cause of death worldwide. Despite the dramatic reduction of smoking rates in the past 50 years in the U.S., nearly...
Source: nejm.org