RtoP. I've been privileged to work on this programme for the past 18 months with Trish groves at BMJ and now very happy to see it launched. It is a collaboration between UCSF and BMJ bringing together the two great themes of conducting great research and getting it published. Visit rtop.bmj.com to try...
Source: bmj.com
The Zika virus debunked by Science-based Medicine. "A new word has been added to the public’s vocabulary – the Zika virus. It seems we have one more infectious agent to worry about. Here are the facts as we currently understand them regarding the recent Zika epidemic, and also some rumors and conspiracy...
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org
Engineers Devise a Way To Harvest Wind Energy From Trees - Slashdot
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Citable Items: The Contested Impact Factor Denominator: Thomson Reuters' approach of indexing by journal section and revising by demand leads to great inconsistencies across journals and inflates the Impact Factors of elite journals. The solution: remov...
Source: sspnet.org
Computer simulation fills in the blanks of Neanderthal extinction: Even tiny groups of humans would have had the tech to out-compete Neanderthals.
Source: arstechnica.com
There was a massive population crash in Europe over 14,500 years ago: New evidence shows a whole group of Europeans vanished, replaced by people of unknown origins.
Source: arstechnica.com
McDonald’s kale salad has more fat and calories than a double Big Mac: Fast-food salads or not, eating out is bad for your health according to new studies.
Source: arstechnica.com
Just finished reading Enabling Collaboration - a book on "achieving success through strategic alliances and partnerships" by Martin Echavarria (@coherence360). Getting things done invariably involves working with others and when those others are themselves complex organisations it requires some thought....
Source: enablingcollaboration.com
What are the Costs and Benefits of Providing Comprehensive Seven‐day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions? Meacock, Rachel. Doran, Tim. Sutton, Matt. Health Economics. "There is as yet no clear evidence that 7-day services will reduce
weekend deaths or can be achieved without increasing weekday...
Source: wiley.com
Make your own cyborg cockroach for under $30: Warning: this DIY hack requires surgery. And an Arduino.
Source: arstechnica.com
What's wrong with Gillian McKeith: For years, 'Dr' Gillian McKeith has used her title to sell TV shows, diet books and herbal sex pills. Now the Advertising Standards Authority has stepped in. Yet the real problem is not what she calls herself, but the mumbo-jumbo she dresses up as scientific fact, says...
Source: theguardian.com
The Powerhouse: America, China, and the great battery war. More about the 'Battery Guys' than the 'Battery Science' but a great account of the national laboratory team at Argonne developing the Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide (NMC) battery and how those at the cutting edge of technology collaborate,...
Source: stevelevinebooks.com
Can smartphone drug trials improve medical care?: A new clinical trial is attempting to track how participants suffering from depression respond to mental health apps
Source: theguardian.com
Australian teenage smoking at record low but 'constant vigilance' required: Latest data shows 6.7% of NSW adolescents in 2014 described themselves as heavy, light or occasional smokers compared with 23.5% in 1996
Source: theguardian.com
Clinicians Embrace 3D Printers to Solve Unique Clinical Challenges: This Medical News and Perspectives article discusses advances in 3-D printing that are being used to solve unique clinical challenges. Bridget M. Kuehn. JAMA.
Source: jamanetwork.com
Is Blockchain the Most Important IT Invention of Our Age? - Slashdot
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Finally Calculated: All the Legal Positions In a 19x19 Game of Go - Slashdot
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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
New data bucks gun industry claim, finds US majority supports smart guns: In nationally representative survey, ~60% of Americans would buy safer weapons.
Source: arstechnica.com
Sharing Clinical Trial Data: A Proposal from the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors: In a joint publication across 14 member journals, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) proposes to require sharing of deidentified individual patient data underlying published...
Source: plos.org