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Jeremy Hunt accused of skewing weekend hospital death rates: British Medical Journal editor says health secretary’s frequent

Jeremy Hunt accused of skewing weekend hospital death rates: British Medical Journal editor says health secretary’s frequent references to ‘excess’ deaths are misleading
Source: theguardian.com

Jeremy Hunt 'misrepresented weekend deaths data' - BBC News: The health secretary has misrepresented a key study used to

Jeremy Hunt 'misrepresented weekend deaths data' - BBC News: The health secretary has misrepresented a key study used to back the case for more seven-day NHS care, the editor of the British Medical Journal says.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes: This is the full text of a paper I presented to the Oceania Tobacco Control

Spotless leopards? Decoding hype on e-cigarettes: This is the full text of a paper I presented to the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, Perth on October 21, 2015. E-cigarettes are the latest innovation in nicotine delivery products to fly the harm-reduction…
Source: theconversation.com

Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Revised by American Cancer Society: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH,

Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines Revised by American Cancer Society: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM For women at average risk for breast cancer, annual mammography screening should be performed between the ages of 45 and 54 — and …...
Source: jwatch.org

Drinking less in middle age can cut risk of dementia, says Nice: Health authority urges people to reduce alcohol intake,

Drinking less in middle age can cut risk of dementia, says Nice: Health authority urges people to reduce alcohol intake, stop smoking and eat more healthily when they hit 40 to avoid ill-health in later life
Source: theguardian.com

Are Farmers Being Deliberately Misled About Badger Culls?: Politicians, farmers leaders, and particularly veterinarians,

Are Farmers Being Deliberately Misled About Badger Culls?: Politicians, farmers leaders, and particularly veterinarians, should know better. (picture from Wikipedia)
Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk

Innovations in Diabetes Care Around the World: Case Studies from Mexico, India, and US of Care Transformation Through Accountable

Innovations in Diabetes Care Around the World: Case Studies from Mexico, India, and US of Care Transformation Through Accountable Care Reforms: A Commonwealth Fund–supported study in Health Affairs examines promising diabetes programs in Mexico, India, and the United States to understand the institutional,...
Source: commonwealthfund.org

Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta: For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by

Let's Encrypt Enters Private Beta: For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by making encryption ubiquitous. Fixing problems with the Internet's certificate infrastructure has been at the top of that list.
Source: eff.org

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Implications for Access to Essential Medicines: This Viewpoint discusses the

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Implications for Access to Essential Medicines: This Viewpoint discusses the importance of patent protection and its role in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. Jing Luo. Aaron S. Kesselheim. JAMA.
Source: jamanetwork.com

Dabigatran-Reversal Agent Price Set: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD

Dabigatran-Reversal Agent Price Set: By Joe Elia Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Idarucizumab (Praxbind), an agent … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org

Android 6.0 Marshmallow makes full-disk encryption mandatory for most new devices | ExtremeTech: Google is stepping up and

Android 6.0 Marshmallow makes full-disk encryption mandatory for most new devices | ExtremeTech: Google is stepping up and mandating full disk encryption in Marshmallow (again). This time, we hope the feature sticks.
Source: extremetech.com

‘This change will be the end of the Open University as we know it’: Staff are balloting for strike action as OU plans

‘This change will be the end of the Open University as we know it’: Staff are balloting for strike action as OU plans to close seven of nine regional centres in England amid competition from free online courses such as Moocs
Source: theguardian.com

Nearly 77 percent of pulmonary clinical trials failed to report race and ethnicity data: Researchers from Duke University

Nearly 77 percent of pulmonary clinical trials failed to report race and ethnicity data: Researchers from Duke University and Durham Veteran Affairs Medical Center have found that nearly 77 percent of pulmonary clinical trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov failed to report race and ethnicity data,...
Source: eurekalert.org

Social media usage at critical care conferences helps broaden reach: Social media is a tool that groups have adopted to

Social media usage at critical care conferences helps broaden reach: Social media is a tool that groups have adopted to help educate, market, and promote causes or topics to a broad audience. Researchers examined trends in social media use at pulmonary and critical care conferences and found substantial...
Source: eurekalert.org

3-D printing provides low-cost alternative in bronchoscopy simulation training: Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

3-D printing provides low-cost alternative in bronchoscopy simulation training: Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, found that 3D-printed tracheobronchial tree models compared favorably against other more standard models in training pulmonary physicians to...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Traffic deaths preventable, WHO says in call for road safety: Countries must introduce tougher laws to prevent drivers from

Traffic deaths preventable, WHO says in call for road safety: Countries must introduce tougher laws to prevent drivers from speeding or drinking and help reduce the toll of 1.25 million people killed each year in traffic accidents, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Source: reuters.com

Impact of proton pump inhibitor treatment on gastrointestinal bleeding associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug

Impact of proton pump inhibitor treatment on gastrointestinal bleeding associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use among post-myocardial infarction patients taking antithrombotics: nationwide study Anne-Marie Schjerning Olsen. Jesper Lindhardsen. Gunnar H Gislason. Patricia McGettigan. Mark...
Source: bmj.com

The Simplest Definition of SCORM You'll Ever Read: SCORM compliance assures companies that content creation tools and learning

The Simplest Definition of SCORM You'll Ever Read: SCORM compliance assures companies that content creation tools and learning management systems (LMS) work together to create an optimal instructional experience.
Source: schoolkeep.com

Retail clinics best used as backup to a patient's primary care physician: The American College of Physicians (ACP) today

Retail clinics best used as backup to a patient's primary care physician: The American College of Physicians (ACP) today said that retail health clinics - now commonly present in drugstores and/or big box retailers - are best used as a backup alternative to a patient's primary care physician for the...
Source: medicalxpress.com

Patients using nurse practitioners are less likely to have avoidable hospital admissions: New research from The University

Patients using nurse practitioners are less likely to have avoidable hospital admissions: New research from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston indicates that diabetic patients who got their primary care from nurse practitioners did not have an increase in potentially preventable hospital...
Source: medicalxpress.com