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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

MRI scan that can predict stroke risk has 'promise to save lives': Scientists at Oxford University develop non-invasive

MRI scan that can predict stroke risk has 'promise to save lives': Scientists at Oxford University develop non-invasive technique to measure amount of cholesterol in carotid plaques
Source: theguardian.com

A Roadmap to 100% Renewable Energy in 139 Countries by 2050: Wind, solar, hydropower, and geothermal could power most of

A Roadmap to 100% Renewable Energy in 139 Countries by 2050: Wind, solar, hydropower, and geothermal could power most of the world argues Mark Jaobson and team
Source: ieee.org

Bricklaying Robots And Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry

Bricklaying Robots And Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry
Source: vice.com

RCGP welcomes international recruitment boost to ease GP shortages

RCGP welcomes international recruitment boost to ease GP shortages
Source: rcgp.org.uk

A single-centre hospital-wide handoff standardisation report: what is so special about that? "Using a relatively low-cost

A single-centre hospital-wide handoff standardisation report: what is so special about that? "Using a relatively low-cost approach, they managed to implement the system across 15 medical departments, as well as nursing, train nearly 6000 healthcare staff and collect observational data on process reliability...
Source: bmj.com

Green man road crossings 'too fast' - BBC News: Guidance calls for councils in England to make it easier for elderly and

Green man road crossings 'too fast' - BBC News: Guidance calls for councils in England to make it easier for elderly and disabled people to cross the road.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Continuous Glucose Monitoring May Improve Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes Requiring Insulin: By Kelly Young Edited

Continuous Glucose Monitoring May Improve Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes Requiring Insulin: By Kelly Young Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Among patients with type 2 diabetes, continuous glucose monitoring is associated with better glucose control, according...
Source: jwatch.org

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

Festival-goer George Zographou contracts meningitis and dies - BBC News: George Zographou, 18, was taken to hospital after

Festival-goer George Zographou contracts meningitis and dies - BBC News: George Zographou, 18, was taken to hospital after becoming unwell at a music festival in Newquay.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Longitudinal evaluation of a pilot e-portfolio-based supervision programme for final year medical students: views of students,

Longitudinal evaluation of a pilot e-portfolio-based supervision programme for final year medical students: views of students, supervisors and new graduates: Little is known about how best to implement portfolio-based learning in medical school. We evaluated the introduction of a formative e-portfolio-based...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine - development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical

Evaluation of large-group lectures in medicine - development of the SETMED-L (Student Evaluation of Teaching in MEDical Lectures) questionnaire: The seven categories of the Stanford Faculty Development Program (SFDP) represent a framework for planning and assessing medical teaching. Nevertheless, so...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Peanut allergy treatment 'lasts up to four years' - BBC News: Four years after children in a study took the oral treatment,

Peanut allergy treatment 'lasts up to four years' - BBC News: Four years after children in a study took the oral treatment, 70% had no allergic reaction to peanuts.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science: Campaigning vegans will change nothing if they embrace

Netflix vegan hit What the Health serves up lots of bad science: Campaigning vegans will change nothing if they embrace bad science and conspiracy theories when making the health case for their diet, says Anthony Warner
Source: newscientist.com

Effect of Malaria Initiative: Launched in 2005 by President George W. Bush and expanded by President Barack Obama, the US

Effect of Malaria Initiative: Launched in 2005 by President George W. Bush and expanded by President Barack Obama, the US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) has been one of the main sources of funding for malaria prevention interventions in sub-Saharan Africa. A new report in PLoS Medicine shows...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Chrome will start marking HTTP sites in Incognito mode as non-secure in October 2017: Google today announced the second

Chrome will start marking HTTP sites in Incognito mode as non-secure in October 2017: Google today announced the second step in its plan to mark all HTTP sites as non-secure in Chrome. Starting in October 2017, Chrome will mark HTTP sites with entered data and HTTP sites in Incognito mode as non-secure.
Source: venturebeat.com

Newcastle hospitals chief sacked for gross misconduct: Sir Leonard Fenwick, longest-serving NHS chief executive, dismissed

Newcastle hospitals chief sacked for gross misconduct: Sir Leonard Fenwick, longest-serving NHS chief executive, dismissed after inquiry into claims of inappropriate behaviour
Source: theguardian.com

Prospect of losing new GPs so early in their careers could be disastrous for the NHS, says RCGP

Prospect of losing new GPs so early in their careers could be disastrous for the NHS, says RCGP
Source: rcgp.org.uk


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Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly

Treatment for hypertension in adults aged 18 to 59 years | Cochrane "Antihypertensive drugs used to treat predominantly healthy adults aged 18 to 59 years with mild to moderate primary hypertension have a small absolute effect to reduce cardiovascular mortality and morbidity primarily due to reduction...
Source: cochrane.org