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Cambridgeshire's £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends - A five-year £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends after eight months

Cambridgeshire's £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends - A five-year £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends after eight months because the company running it failed to achieve what Andrew MacPherson, Managing Director of The NHS Strategic Projects Team that managed the procurement on behalf of the CCG...
Source: bbc.co.uk

Security Council ‘Unequivocally’ Condemns ISIL Terrorist Attacks, Unanimously Adopting Text that Determines Extremist

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

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

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

MSF hospital in Syria hit by 'double-tap' barrel bombing: Seven killed in Homs attack, latest in apparent escalation of

MSF hospital in Syria hit by 'double-tap' barrel bombing: Seven killed in Homs attack, latest in apparent escalation of strikes on medical facilities in civil war
Source: theguardian.com

Portability of Information Solves Interoperability ~ Part II: 2020 - The Data Democracy — Tincture: We Americans, we’re

Portability of Information Solves Interoperability ~ Part II: 2020 - The Data Democracy — Tincture: We Americans, we’re sick and tired of being sick and tired. We’re tired of reading that the interoperability of our heal…
Source: medium.com

We Are One Profession: We sit quietly, the doctor and I. Waiting. The only sounds are the soft hiss of the ventilator and

We Are One Profession: We sit quietly, the doctor and I. Waiting. The only sounds are the soft hiss of the ventilator and the muffled sobs of a broken mother, cradling her baby son in her arms. I'm so glad this doctor is...
Source: 23weeksocks.com

Digital archive of Cornish life opens online - BBC News: A photo, film and audio archive documenting Cornish life is made

Digital archive of Cornish life opens online - BBC News: A photo, film and audio archive documenting Cornish life is made available online.
Source: bbc.co.uk

IIS 7.5 Detailed Error - 500.0 - Internal Server Error

IIS 7.5 Detailed Error - 500.0 - Internal Server Error
Source: rsc.org

IDF diabetes atlas

Key figures on diabetes from the IDF. "The latest edition of the IDF Diabetes Atlas shows that 463 million adults are currently living with diabetes."
Source: diabetesatlas.org

No Rich Child Left Behind, and Enriching the Rich: Why MOOCs are not improving education ~ Stephen Downes

No Rich Child Left Behind, and Enriching the Rich: Why MOOCs are not improving education ~ Stephen Downes
Source: downes.ca

Quantum entanglement achieved at room temperature in macroscopic semiconductor wafers | KurzweilAI

Quantum entanglement achieved at room temperature in macroscopic semiconductor wafers | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

E-coli bacteria, found in some China farms and patients, cannot be killed with antiobiotic drug of last resort | KurzweilAI

E-coli bacteria, found in some China farms and patients, cannot be killed with antiobiotic drug of last resort | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

Pigeons diagnose breast cancer on X-rays as well as radiologists | KurzweilAI

Pigeons diagnose breast cancer on X-rays as well as radiologists | KurzweilAI
Source: kurzweilai.net

Eyes-On Wearable Ultrasound and IR Glasses for Easy Venipuncture, Maybe Much More |: Evena Medical, a Roseville, CA firm,

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

How to make better dental fillings last longer - physicsworld.com: Neutrons and terahertz radiation used to track ions as

How to make better dental fillings last longer - physicsworld.com: Neutrons and terahertz radiation used to track ions as dental cement hardens
Source: google.com

How to use smartphones in the classroom: up-to-date statistics - e-Learning Feeds: 6 Shared Mobile learning is becoming

How to use smartphones in the classroom: up-to-date statistics - e-Learning Feeds: 6 Shared Mobile learning is becoming more and more popular, so our friends from Cell Phone City Advocacy prepared a post where they share statistics on the
Source: elearningfeeds.com

Tor is getting a major security upgrade | ExtremeTech: Tor has become a laughing stock in the hacker community -- can it

Tor is getting a major security upgrade | ExtremeTech: Tor has become a laughing stock in the hacker community -- can it shore up its vulnerabilities, and reassert the public's right to privacy?
Source: extremetech.com

A fingerprint test for ivory has been developed to help identify poachers: Police officers may soon be able to identify

A fingerprint test for ivory has been developed to help identify poachers: Police officers may soon be able to identify wildlife poachers by retrieving fingerprints from smuggled ivory, new research has revealed. Around 50,000 African elephants are thought to be poached each year, but it had been thought...
Source: independent.co.uk

Zimbabwe on track to achieve virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: In 2010, when the project began,

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