Could Borophene Rival Graphene?: The first demonstration of boron-based borophene reveals a conductive material that could outperform graphene
Source: ieee.org
Government launches first 'TripAdvisor' style website for care homes: The system will allow residents and relatives to provide reviews of care homes and to give them a star rating
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Smartphone-Based Visual Acuity Measurement for Screening and Clinical Assessment: This commentary discusses a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology that describes the accuracy of a smartphone-based visual acuity test for detecting visual impairment in rural Kenya. Christopher J. Brady. Allen O. Eghrari....
Source: jamanetwork.com
Hand-worn Robot to Help Blind People Navigate and Intelligently Grasp Objects. "A team of collaborators from the University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Arkansas, Little Rock are starting work on a robotic device worn on the hand that will work to extend the abilities of blind people to move...
Source: medgadget.com
2016 – the year of MOOC hard questions: We had 2012 as the year of the MOOC, 2014 was probably the year of the MOOC maturation, and I’m calling it for 2016, the year that university Vice Chancellors and Principals start looking and…
Source: edtechie.net
Cornwall Council's High Court victory over £160m BT contract - BBC News: A £160m contract between a council and corporate giant BT will be scrapped following a High Court battle.
Source: bbc.co.uk
APOD: 2015 December 6 - A Force from Empty Space: The Casimir Effect
Source: nasa.gov
80,000 additional healthcare staff to be available for employment in the NHS by 2020 says HEE - Hospital Dr
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Parliamentary privilege—mortality in members of the Houses of Parliament compared with the UK general population: retrospective cohort analysis, 1945-2011 John Dennis. Tim Crayford. BMJ.
Source: bmj.com
Cycling infrastructure (changes to the road environment) for reducing cycling injuries in cyclists | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org
Tylenol for Flu Symptoms Might Not Be Helpful: By Kelly Young
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
Acetaminophen may not be much help for influenza, according to … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
FDA Approves Less Expensive Insulin Glargine: By Kristin J. Kelley
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
The FDA has approved an insulin glargine injection (marketed as Basaglar) for treating type 1 (adult and pediatric patients) and … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
You've Been Overtesting for HbA1c, Researchers Assert: By Joe Elia
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
Most patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes have been subject to overtesting, according to a study in … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
Moving Beyond “Food Deserts”: Reorienting United States Policies to Reduce Disparities in Diet Quality: Jason Block and S. V. Subramanian explore avenues for improving the health of Americans through reducing dietary inequalities and look at whether concern over "food deserts" has been taken too...
Source: plos.org
Giroptic Is Building The GoPro For Virtual Reality: French startup Giroptic just raised $4.5 million for a new kind of action camera. Giroptic looks like a GoPro, but if you look closely, you can notice three..
Source: techcrunch.com
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
CDC: New Diabetes Cases on the Decline in the U.S.: By the Editors
For the first time in decades, the annual number of new diabetes cases among U.S. adults appears to be declining, according to … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
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
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