More Evidence That Cranberry Products Don't Prevent Urinary Tract Infections: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
Cranberry capsules did not help prevent bacteriuria plus pyuria in a study of nursing home residents published in … NEJM Journal Watch.
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Arrival by ambulance explains variation in mortality by time of admission: retrospective study of admissions to hospital following emergency department attendance in England: Background Studies finding higher mortality rates for patients admitted to hospital at weekends rely on routine administrative...
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The Prince by Machiavelli. Been meaning to read this for some time. It seemed more of a recap of history of Italy in the early 16th century and a lengthy job application pamphlet. Basically, "I know what's been going on and how complex everything is so give me a job". It was rewarding though that some...
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Good read - The Path. A quick overview of 5 Chinese philosophies making them relevant to how we should think about how we live today. I've not read much about them and assumed they were pretty much ancient and irrelevant, reduced to one-liner aphorisms, but Michael Puett has been teaching a popular...
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People and Landscape Image, Sarawat Mountains | National Geographic Photo of the Day: Men chat on a Sarawat Mountain overlook while sun rays create a dramatic sky over Mecca in this National Geographic Photo of the Day.
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Woman, 90, in hospital after 'escaping' from care home - BBC News: A 90-year-old woman with dementia is being treated in hospital after going missing from a care home in Cornwall.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone. Carbon capture in basalt takes only 2 years says research team in Iceland.
Source: thenakedscientists.com
Just finished reading 'not exactly: in praise of vagueness' by Kees Van Deemter. Fantastic concepts and well explained but I found it really hard going. He seemed to want to dive in to all the logic, theoretical background, and notation of the topic but then it would have felt more like a textbook. ...
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Ultrathin Stick-On Device Measures, Displays Blood Oxygen Concentration |: Fitness trackers are exceptionally popular nowadays with consumers, though they're still pretty basic in their abilities. Even the more capable heart rate
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Inspiring read. Naomi Klein. This changes everything. A tirade against the very inconvenient truth that climate change is ultimately due to capitalism. A destructive capitalism that extracts from nature recklessly thinking growth can be without limit on a finite planet. However, the book ends with...
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Annual Peak of Arctic Sea Ice Hit a Record Low : Image of the Day: The Arctic ice cap grew less this winter than at any time since satellites have measured it.
Source: nasa.gov
Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago and re-issued recently with an introduction by Yuval Hariri) and having stood the test of time and debate. It is called 'the bible' of the animal rights movement and rightly so ......
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Great read! We can eat almost anything, but we are uncertain what we should eat. This omnivore's dilemma has not only vexed our ancestors trying to avoid poisonous foods it continues to occupy much of our time. We seem incapable of deciding what to have for lunch without consulting to dietary guidelines,...
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Good read. "Life on the Edge" by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden covers the fascinating world of quantum biology. Could life be a delicate balance that organic molecules can provide to enable quantum coherence? The efficient quantum mechanisms of photosynthesis, magnetoreception, and enzymes are...
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Global Wind Power Capacity Tops Nuclear Energy For First Time - Slashdot
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Kenyan students staying in Kenya in greater numbers but quality concerns persist. Market intelligence for international student recruitment: Kenyan students are becoming less likely to leave their country for major study abroad destinations, and more likely to pursue higher education within Kenya. The...
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Long-term glycemic control using polymer-encapsulated human stem cell-derived beta cells in immune-competent mice.
Arturo J Vegas. Omid Veiseh. Mads Gürtler. Jeffrey R Millman. Felicia W Pagliuca. Andrew R Bader. Joshua C Doloff. Jie Li. Michael Chen. Karsten Olejnik. Hok Hei Tam. Siddharth Jhunjhunwala....
Source: nature.com
Printed Sensors Evaluated for Glucose Measurement in Exhaled Breath. Very interesting approach to measuring glucose using nanotechnology printing. The key to all these alternate sites (and methods) is how rapidly they track true blood glucose. Fingerprick capillary blood is just so good at that.
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Delhi embraces car restrictions on key working day - BBC News: The first full day of car restrictions in the Indian capital, Delhi, is largely observed - but how it affects pollution remains to be seen, writes Atish Patel.
Source: bbc.co.uk
In this book Tony Atkinson - Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science - asks the question, "If we wish to reduce the extent of inequality, how can this be done?"
His answer includes looking at history for evidence of what has worked in the past and what could be...
Source: harvard.edu