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Integrate to Innovate: Using Standards to Push Content Forward: While many of the traditional publishing tasks remain intact,

Integrate to Innovate: Using Standards to Push Content Forward: While many of the traditional publishing tasks remain intact, new tasks that are much more technical in nature have changed the skill sets required to be scholarly publishers. As new and developing…
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Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73)

Re-evaluation of the traditional diet-heart hypothesis: analysis of recovered data from Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-73) Christopher E Ramsden. Daisy Zamora. Sharon Majchrzak-Hong. Keturah R Faurot. Steven K Broste. Robert P Frantz. John M Davis. Amit Ringel. Chirayath M Suchindran. Joseph R Hibbeln....
Source: bmj.com

Tweeting links to Cochrane Schizophrenia Group reviews: a randomised controlled trial C E Adams. M Jayaram. A Y M Bodart.

Tweeting links to Cochrane Schizophrenia Group reviews: a randomised controlled trial C E Adams. M Jayaram. A Y M Bodart. S Sampson. S Zhao. A A Montgomery. BMJ Open.
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Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago

Good read. Animal Liberation by Peter Singer. A powerful book on animal rights written 40 years ago (updated 20 years ago and re-issued recently with an introduction by Yuval Hariri) and having stood the test of time and debate. It is called 'the bible' of the animal rights movement and rightly so ......
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Pioglitazone use and risk of bladder cancer: population based cohort study Marco Tuccori. Kristian B Filion. Hui Yin. Oriana

Pioglitazone use and risk of bladder cancer: population based cohort study Marco Tuccori. Kristian B Filion. Hui Yin. Oriana H Yu. Robert W Platt. Laurent Azoulay. BMJ. The authors conclude, "The results of this large population based study indicate that pioglitazone is associated with an increased...
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Could this evidence suggest dietary guidelines work or is there something else going on in Japan? "Quality of diet and

Could this evidence suggest dietary guidelines work or is there something else going on in Japan? "Quality of diet and mortality among Japanese men and women: Japan Public Health Center based prospective study" Kayo Kurotani. Shamima Akter. Ikuko Kashino. Atsushi Goto. Tetsuya Mizoue. Mitsuhiko Noda....
Source: bmj.com

Health Affairs | Mobile

Health Affairs | Mobile
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To RCT or not to RCT? The ongoing saga of randomised trials in quality improvement Gareth Parry. Maxine Power. BMJ Quality

To RCT or not to RCT? The ongoing saga of randomised trials in quality improvement Gareth Parry. Maxine Power. BMJ Quality & Safety.
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Why evaluate ‘common sense’ quality and safety interventions? Angus IG Ramsay. Naomi J Fulop. BMJ Quality & Safety.

Why evaluate ‘common sense’ quality and safety interventions? Angus IG Ramsay. Naomi J Fulop. BMJ Quality & Safety.
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Junk food ads face online ban in UK - BBC News: Advertising junk food could soon be banned from children's content online,

Junk food ads face online ban in UK - BBC News: Advertising junk food could soon be banned from children's content online, according to the UK's advertising watchdog.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Seeing takeaway food makes you eat more, say researchers in Fenland study. "Government strategies to promote healthier

Seeing takeaway food makes you eat more, say researchers in Fenland study. "Government strategies to promote healthier diets through planning restrictions for takeaway food could be most effective if focused around the workplace." Associations between exposure to takeaway food outlets, takeaway food...
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Top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond: the future is a digital thing. The one that caught my attention was: "By

Top strategic predictions for 2016 and beyond: the future is a digital thing. The one that caught my attention was: "By 2018, 20% of all business content will be authored by machines. ... Technologies with the ability to proactively assemble and deliver information through automated composition...
Source: gartner.com

Junk DNA - a thorough but accessible account of modern genetics covering discoveries since mapping the human genome and

Junk DNA - a thorough but accessible account of modern genetics covering discoveries since mapping the human genome and epigenetics. Genomic imprinting, non-coding RNA, telomeres and ageing, etc. Everything discovered (or I forgot about) since I left medical school basically. Everything was explained...
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Primary prevention and risk factor reduction in coronary heart disease mortality among working aged men and women in eastern

Primary prevention and risk factor reduction in coronary heart disease mortality among working aged men and women in eastern Finland over 40 years: population based observational study Pekka Jousilahti. Tiina Laatikainen. Markku Peltonen. Katja Borodulin. Satu Männistö. Antti Jula. Veikko Salomaa....
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Windows 10 now shows ads on the lock screen — here’s how to kill them | ExtremeTech: Microsoft has begun using the Windows

Windows 10 now shows ads on the lock screen — here’s how to kill them | ExtremeTech: Microsoft has begun using the Windows 10 lock screen to advertise content -- but while the game it chose is excellent, some people won't like the precedent this sets.
Source: extremetech.com

JNCI Mono

JNCI Mono
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"to truly improve health equity, we need to swim even further upstream and engage in advocacy for an entire population.

"to truly improve health equity, we need to swim even further upstream and engage in advocacy for an entire population. The WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health was explicit that to achieve health equity, we need to tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money and resources". Swimming...
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The problem with Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles

"This article presents our reflections on the full potential of using PDSA in healthcare, but in doing so we explore the inherent complexity and multiple challenges of executing PDSA well. Ultimately, we argue that the problem with PDSA is the oversimplification of the method as it has been translated...
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Sci-Hub: How Does it Work?: Sci-Hub is a pirate website that enables users to access content that is held behind publisher

Sci-Hub: How Does it Work?: Sci-Hub is a pirate website that enables users to access content that is held behind publisher paywalls. This is how it works.
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eLearning Modules will Die… and 702010 will hold the Smoking Gun: "When talking about technology and learning it’s hard

eLearning Modules will Die… and 702010 will hold the Smoking Gun: "When talking about technology and learning it’s hard not to think about elearning modules. They’ve been the bread and butter of digital learning solutions for decades and the industry behind them has helped many, including myself,...
Source: learnnovators.com