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Collaborative Care Linked to Better Outcomes in Substance Use Disorders: By Kelly Young Edited by David G. Fairchild,

Collaborative Care Linked to Better Outcomes in Substance Use Disorders: By Kelly Young Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Patients with alcohol or opioid use disorder treated with a collaborative care model in primary care are twice as likely to receive evidence-based...
Source: jwatch.org

Smoking linked to frailty in older adults: A recent paper published in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British

Smoking linked to frailty in older adults: A recent paper published in Age & Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, finds that current smoking in older people increases the risk of developing frailty, though f…
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4 maps that will change how you see migration in Europe: These maps show European migration in numbers – with surprising

4 maps that will change how you see migration in Europe: These maps show European migration in numbers – with surprising results.
Source: weforum.org

Coming back from the edge: a qualitative study of a professional support unit for junior doctors: It is known that many

Coming back from the edge: a qualitative study of a professional support unit for junior doctors: It is known that many trainee doctors around the world experience work satisfaction but also considerable work stress in the training period. Such stress seems to be linked to multiple factors including...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Baby boomers' drink and drug misuse needs urgent action, warn experts: By 2020, the number of over-50s receiving treatment

Baby boomers' drink and drug misuse needs urgent action, warn experts: By 2020, the number of over-50s receiving treatment for substance misuse problems is expected to double in Europe and treble in the US, say researchers
Source: theguardian.com

How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of

How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently...
Source: biomedcentral.com

GPs in England 'unconfident' discussing physical activity with patients – report: Less than two-thirds of doctors feel

GPs in England 'unconfident' discussing physical activity with patients – report: Less than two-thirds of doctors feel confident discussing activity levels and almost a third have never heard of national guidelines. "The majority of doctors in England are unfamiliar with recommended levels of physical...
Source: theguardian.com

Cost Effectiveness of Support for People Starting a New Medication for a Long-Term Condition Through Community Pharmacies:

Cost Effectiveness of Support for People Starting a New Medication for a Long-Term Condition Through Community Pharmacies: An Economic Evaluation of the New Medicine Service (NMS) Compared with Normal Practice Rachel A. Elliott. Lukasz Tanajewski. Georgios Gkountouras. Anthony J. Avery. Nick Barber....
Source: springer.com

Community detection, link prediction, and layer interdependence in multilayer networks. "Complex systems are often characterized

Community detection, link prediction, and layer interdependence in multilayer networks. "Complex systems are often characterized by distinct types of interactions between the same entities. These can be described as a multilayer network where each layer represents one type of interaction. These layers...
Source: aps.org

Risky Alcohol Intake on the Rise — Especially in Women, Minorities, Seniors: By Kelly Young Edited by Susan Sadoughi,

Risky Alcohol Intake on the Rise — Especially in Women, Minorities, Seniors: By Kelly Young Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD The prevalence of high-risk drinking and alcohol use disorder increased sharply over a decade, constituting a public health crisis, a JAMA Psychiatry study concludes. Two surveys...
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Source: arstechnica.com

Passing the MRCP - an approach to REALLY hard questions. In your revision for the MRCP you will come across very tricky

Passing the MRCP - an approach to REALLY hard questions. In your revision for the MRCP you will come across very tricky MCQs. You know the ones ... the ones that you have no idea what the correct answer is, or the correct answer surprises you, or they are discussed by other candidates who can't agree...

What Happens When Carpooling Laws Suddenly Change? Chaos!: A huge jump in traffic congestion in Jakarta shows how valuable

What Happens When Carpooling Laws Suddenly Change? Chaos!: A huge jump in traffic congestion in Jakarta shows how valuable carpooling had been—before the government ended it
Source: ieee.org

BMA reveals "costs" of STPs and calls for re-think on the way forward for NHS. Hospital Dr reports that the BMA sent out

BMA reveals "costs" of STPs and calls for re-think on the way forward for NHS. Hospital Dr reports that the BMA sent out Freedom of Information requests and found millions of additional spending on consultancy and management fees.
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

Bigger wine glasses make us drink too much, says researcher: Today’s glasses, 450ml compared with 65ml 300 years ago,

Bigger wine glasses make us drink too much, says researcher: Today’s glasses, 450ml compared with 65ml 300 years ago, encourage consumption, Cambridge scientist tells Hay festival
Source: theguardian.com

That feeling when you see your code (or at least an interpretation of it) in the innards of some project. I've been asked

That feeling when you see your code (or at least an interpretation of it) in the innards of some project. I've been asked to help look around the innards of onexamination again to make it even slicker and better. Found a lovely Chebyshev rational function staring out at us from the code. "After all...
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Tax plastic drinking straws, firm says - BBC News: A waste disposal firm claims that plastic drinking straws are "the ultimate

Tax plastic drinking straws, firm says - BBC News: A waste disposal firm claims that plastic drinking straws are "the ultimate in human wastefulness".
Source: bbc.co.uk

Recently completed trade deal between EU and Singapore may have set the framework for one with Britain - and will involve

Recently completed trade deal between EU and Singapore may have set the framework for one with Britain - and will involve ratification by all nation states. "The latest EU trade ruling is a disaster for Brexit Britain: Theresa May might like to think she’s a “bloody difficult woman” but in a landmark...
Source: independent.co.uk

The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks: Despite debate over how many "deaths" air pollution causes, it is

The UK government’s attitude to air pollution stinks: Despite debate over how many "deaths" air pollution causes, it is clear bad air damages our health, so attempts to delay rules on reducing it must be resisted
Source: newscientist.com

Traces #4 by Mike Caulfield: The Coming Annotation Wars: I went to the iAnnotate conference last week and it was lovely.

Traces #4 by Mike Caulfield: The Coming Annotation Wars: I went to the iAnnotate conference last week and it was lovely. Annotation is slowly coming into its own as a technology; I tend to think of it as a way to "re-webify" a web that has increasingly move...
Source: tinyletter.com