Security Council ‘Unequivocally’ Condemns ISIL Terrorist Attacks, Unanimously Adopting Text that Determines Extremist Group Poses ‘Unprecedented’ Threat | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
Source: www.un.org
Clinician Computer Use in Safety-Net Clinics Might Disrupt Communication with Patients: By Jenni Whalen
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Frequent computer use by clinicians during patient visits in safety-net clinics might negatively affect communication and patient...
Source: jwatch.org
Organ donation: Groundbreaking law change in Wales means all adults become donors: Revolutionary new system will 'save hundreds of lives' in dramatic departure from current 'opt-in' process and will be closely watched by rest of UK
Source: telegraph.co.uk
APOD: 2015 November 23 - A 212 Hour Exposure of Orion
Source: nasa.gov
IIS 7.5 Detailed Error - 500.0 - Internal Server Error
Source: rsc.org
Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is To Hijack a Science Journal Website - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org
E-coli bacteria, found in some China farms and patients, cannot be killed with antiobiotic drug of last resort | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net
Anti-VEGF Pharmacotherapy as an Alternative to Panretinal Laser Photocoagulation for Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy: From 1976 to 1981, the results of the Diabetic Retinopathy Study identified that panretinal laser photocoagulation (PRP) for high-risk proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) reduced...
Source: jamanetwork.com
This Buddhist temple's 1,400-year-old ginkgo tree is dropping a sea of yellow: Thousands of people from all over China have headed to the Zhongnan Mountains to appreciate the simple beauty of a tree shedding its leaves for the 1,400th consecutive year. The storied gingko tree’s leaves start falling...
Source: independent.co.uk
Eyes-On Wearable Ultrasound and IR Glasses for Easy Venipuncture, Maybe Much More |: Evena Medical, a Roseville, CA firm, is releasing an ultrasound and near-infrared device for vein viewing that clinicians can simply wear like a pair of bu
Source: medgadget.com
Managing a 100-percent renewable grid, without batteries: When externalities are accounted for, it's relatively cheap.
Source: arstechnica.com
NASA Earth Observatory : : Sitting atop the Andes plateau on the border between Peru and Bolivia, the lake is the highest major body of navigable water in the world and the largest lake in South America.
Source: nasa.gov
Exercise and diabetes prevention. I was asked about some references and thought I'd share them here from our PgDip Diabetes Programme - BMJ / University of Leicester.
The classic efficacy articles on exercise preventing diabetes are:
The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200105033441801#t=abstract...
Source: nih.gov
Sofosbuvir-velpatasvir successful in hep C regardless of genotype: (HealthDay)—Sofosbuvir-velpatasvir is effective for hepatitis C virus (HCV), regardless of genotype, according to three studies published online Nov. 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The research was published to coincide...
Source: medicalxpress.com
Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org
Zimbabwe on track to achieve virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: In 2010, when the project began, Zimbabwe had one of the highest burdens of new HIV infections in the world, with a mother-to-child HIV transmission rate of approximately 30 percent. Today, the rate of transmission...
Source: eurekalert.org
Study finds that Ebola vaccine is safe and stimulates strong immune response: A clinical trial of a new Ebola vaccine has found that it is well tolerated and stimulates strong immune responses in adults in Mali and in the US, according to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Lancet Infectious...
Source: eurekalert.org
Why suicide is on the increase among the UK’s police and firefighters | Natalie Roberts and Ann-Marie Abbasah
Source: theguardian.com
Media demonstrate ignorance of correlation vs. causation by reporting the coffee study in Circulation - Association of Coffee Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Three Large Prospective Cohorts. See reports in Telegraph, Tribune, BT news, South Wales Argus!, Harvard's own press release....
Source: ahajournals.org
Cornwall, Bristol Channel and Wales at sunset from from Space - NASA February 2000. Lovely glint of light on the sea. Found this on the NASA search page.
Source: nasa.gov