Garry Shandling and the Disease You Didn't Know About: The comedian suffered from hyperparathyroidism, a rare and under-publicized condition that can sometimes be fatal.
Source: theatlantic.com
Researchers identify candidate biomarker of accelerated onset diabetic retinopathy: Mass. Eye and Ear researchers describe, for the first time, an association between a defective myogenic response of blood vessels in the retina and early, accelerated development of retinopathy in patients with type 1...
Source: eurekalert.org
WHO sees scientific consensus on Zika as cause for disorders: Researchers around the world are now convinced the Zika virus can cause the birth defect microcephaly as well as Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that can result in paralysis, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
Source: reuters.com
Malawi's fearsome chief, terminator of child marriages: Chief Kachindamoto has broken up 850 child marriages in three years, and banned the sexual initiations of young girls.
Source: aljazeera.com
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...
Source: bmj.com
Less than 1 percent of millions of Google e-cigarette searches focused on quitting smoking: A study of Google search trends led by researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and San Diego State University as part of the Internet Tobacco Vendors Study shows...
Source: eurekalert.org
Rare example of lost language found on stone hidden 2500 years ago: This could change our understanding of the mysterious Etruscan civilization in Italy.
Source: arstechnica.com
Best way to stop overprescribing antibiotics? Public shaming, of course: Doctors may be as irrational as the rest of us mere mortals, researchers say.
Source: arstechnica.com
Having a fridge laser could spare you from food poisoning: New method promises to cheaply and easily detect wriggling bacteria on your grub.
Source: arstechnica.com
Societies Offer New Guidelines on Duration of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy: By Kelly Young
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM
The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology have released new guidelines on the appropriate duration of...
Source: jwatch.org
Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled: Timing, cost, and the right license made all the difference
Source: ieee.org
SKrashen: The Most Intrusive Technology of All Time
Source: blogspot.com
Amputee 'wasted' cash on prosthetic leg - BBC News: An amputee says he paid nearly £10,000 on a prosthetic limb because he was not told he could have been entitled to a similar one on the NHS.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Biosimilar drugs could save up to $110 billion by 2020 - IMS : Lower-cost copies of complex biotech drugs, known as biosimilars, could save the United States and Europe's five top markets as much as 98 billion euros ($110 bln) by 2020, a new analysis showed on Tuesday.
Source: reuters.com
Is evidence-based policymaking in crisis? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com
Good read. Obliquity by John Kay on behavioural economics. "The world is complex, imperfectly known, and our knowledge of it is incomplete, and these things will remain true however much we learn and however much we analyse it." That is why we need to be 'oblique' or muddle through rather than be direct...
Source: amazon.co.uk
Charles E. Lindblom - one of the early developers of incrementalism ... or 'muddling through'.
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Medicare may soon cover diabetes prevention program: (HealthDay)—Medicare could soon pay for a program aimed at diabetes prevention, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced this week.
Source: medicalxpress.com
Andrew Herxheimer obituary: Pharmacologist who helped patients talk to each other about their illnesses
Source: theguardian.com
APOD: 2016 March 22 - Rainbow Airglow over the Azores
Source: nasa.gov