Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective To estimate the effect of playing Pokémon GO on the number of steps taken daily up to six weeks after installation of the game.
Design Cohort study using online survey data.
Participants...
Source: bmj.com
Hair-raising tales: beauty parlour syndrome and the dangers of visiting the salon: A man has been awarded a £90,000 payout as the latest victim of of this phenomenon. It’s not the first story of a haircut gone badly wrong
Source: theguardian.com
Doctors call for ban on diesel engines in London - BBC News: A campaign led by medical professionals is calling for all diesel cars to be banned from London.
Source: bbc.co.uk
LIGO's gravitational-wave discovery is Physics World 2016 Breakthrough of the Year - physicsworld.com: Long-awaited direct detection of Einstein's gravitational waves tops our list of the 10 key breakthroughs in physics this year
Source: physicsworld.com
Methane surge needs 'urgent attention' - BBC News: Scientists say they are concerned at the rapid rate at which methane is gathering in the atmosphere.
Source: bbc.co.uk
End-of-Rotation House Staff Changes Linked to Increased Patient Mortality: By Amy Orciari Herman
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
Resident and intern service changes are associated with increased mortality among hospitalized patients, suggests a retrospective...
Source: jwatch.org
Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding how cell assemblies - the long-presumed computational motif - are organized so that the brain can generate cognitive behavior. The Theory of Connectivity proposes that...
Source: frontiersin.org
Let’s Make the Facts Louder than the Opinions: A public service message from the Weather Channel.
Source: sspnet.org
The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. Technological revolutions tend to involve some important activity becoming cheap, like the cost of communication or finding information. Machine intelligence is, in its essence, a prediction technology, so the economic shift will center around a drop in the...
Source: digitopoly.org
Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia, of Manormead care home near Hindhead needing somewhere else to live
Source: theguardian.com
"Digital-native news outlets in Europe tend to be more focused on delivering quality journalism than on creating new business models or innovating about ways news is presented, according to a new report from Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism that studied 12 online startups in France,...
Source: niemanlab.org
Stadium for Cornwall: Cornish Pirates' Colin Groves hopes work will start in 2017: Cornish Pirates director Colin Groves estimates work on the Stadium for Cornwall will start "in the middle of 2017".
Source: bbc.co.uk
The Results of the "Positive Action for Today's Health" (PATH) Trial for Increasing Walking and Physical Activity in Underserved African-American C... - PubMed - NCBI
Source: nih.gov
Community wide interventions for increasing physical activity | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org
Pisa tests: UK lags behind in global school rankings - BBC News: The UK is still lagging behind at education, with little progress in international rankings.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Scotland’s offer to give abortions to Northern Irish women shames Stormont | Patrick Corrigan: Theresa May must follow Nicola Sturgeon’s lead in exposing the intransigence of Northern Ireland politicians and the inequality of access to terminations
Source: theguardian.com
Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149 Billion: The country’s goal of lowering its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 is yielding dividends in addition to cleaner air.
Source: ieee.org
Can third-party inspections of whether healthcare organisations are fulfilling mandatory standards improve healthcare outcomes? | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org
Study: White deaths exceeded births in one-third of states: More white deaths than births were reported in 17 US states, more than in any time in history, compared to only four in 2004. More than 121 million people -- roughly 38 percent of the total US population -- reside in the 17 states with white...
Source: eurekalert.org
Wales organ donations 'encouraging' in year after consent law - BBC News: A new organ donation law, brought in a year ago in Wales, is saving lives, say ministers.
Source: bbc.co.uk