Time to move: Get up, Get Dressed, Keep moving: Dr Amit Arora is a Consultant Physician and Geriatrician at University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Keele University. Many years ago I was su…
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Underfunded. Underdoctored. Overstretched.: Dr Zoe Wyrko is a Consultant physician at University Hospital Birmingham and is the Director of Workforce for the BGS. In this blog she discusses the recent RCP report ‘Underfunded. Underdoct…
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Differences in incomes of physicians in the United States by race and sex: observational study: Objectives To estimate differences in annual income of physicians in the United States by race and sex adjusted for characteristics of physicians and practices.
Design Cross sectional survey study.
Setting...
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The Strong Evidence Against Spanking: A review of the available research finds that physical punishment is significantly linked to bad outcomes for kids.
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'Cool' Saharan ants' silver hairs cause total internal reflection - physicsworld.com: Desert-dwelling ant can survive temperatures of more than 50 °C because body hairs reflect light and stop them from overheating
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Biologists start sharing unpublished work—oh, the horror!: Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.
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Birds measure magnetic fields using long-lived quantum coherence - physicsworld.com
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White dwarf with nearly pure oxygen atmosphere surprises astronomers - physicsworld.com
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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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Medical Education Theme Issue 2016: Call for Papers: Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun The classic tripartite definition of the roles of a physician includes teaching, research, and patient care. While it is debatable whether the physicians in recent...
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Study supports role of quantum effects in photosynthesis
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Shor's algorithm is implemented using five trapped ions - physicsworld.com: Quantum-computing scheme could be scaled-up to perform practical calculations
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LIGO detects first ever gravitational waves – from two merging black holes - physicsworld.com
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The rise of the robots
Excellent read but of a gloomy dystopian future where robots and software take over manual tasks (as they already have done) and also skilled labour displacing even highly skilled jobs in time. Healthcare might survive a little longer but physicians assistants empowered by...
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Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum: Peer-review platforms built around online pre-print repositories spread to astrophysics. Nature News.
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'Darwin's puddle' shows how new species can emerge without geographic separation
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Electron lifetime is at least 66,000 yottayears - physicsworld.com: Charge conservation stands the test of time at the Borexino experiment
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How to make better dental fillings last longer - physicsworld.com: Neutrons and terahertz radiation used to track ions as dental cement hardens
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Objectively Measured Daily Steps and Subsequent Long Term All-Cause Mortality: The Tasped Prospective Cohort Study: Background Self–reported physical activity has been inversely associated with mortality but the effect of objectively measured step activity on mortality has never been evaluated....
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Why an Indian Program Is Training ‘Quacks’ to Stand in for Doctors: Rural India doesn’t have enough physicians—but it has plenty of local, self-styled medical practitioners. Which is better for public health: cracking down on them, or encouraging their work?
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