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The Emerging Diabetes Online Community: Diabetes self-management is complex and demanding, and isolation and burnout are

The Emerging Diabetes Online Community: Diabetes self-management is complex and demanding, and isolation and burnout are common experiences. The Internet provides opportunities for people with diabetes to connect with one another to address these challenges. The aims of this paper are to introduce ......
Source: nih.gov

What if Uber did health, housing and social care?: If you’ve been to a conference in the past 12 months – you’ll almost

What if Uber did health, housing and social care?: If you’ve been to a conference in the past 12 months – you’ll almost certainly have seen the slide above, or a version of it. Mentioning “disruptive innovation” adds a sprinkle&nb…
Source: paulitaylor.com

GreenWave Wins The 2015 Fuller Challenge | The Buckminster Fuller Institute

GreenWave Wins The 2015 Fuller Challenge | The Buckminster Fuller Institute
Source: bfi.org

Jeremy Hunt doesn’t understand junior doctors. He co-wrote a book on how to dismantle the NHS | Frankie Boyle: Frankie

Jeremy Hunt doesn’t understand junior doctors. He co-wrote a book on how to dismantle the NHS | Frankie Boyle: Frankie Boyle: The health secretary’s name is so redolent of upper-class brutality he belongs in a Martin Amis book where working-class people are called Dave Rubbish
Source: theguardian.com

Rising Suicide Rates: According to a new CDC study, suicide rates jumped sharply in the U.S., particularly among women and

Rising Suicide Rates: According to a new CDC study, suicide rates jumped sharply in the U.S., particularly among women and Native Americans.
Source: theatlantic.com

Ultrathin Stick-On Device Measures, Displays Blood Oxygen Concentration |: Fitness trackers are exceptionally popular nowadays

Ultrathin Stick-On Device Measures, Displays Blood Oxygen Concentration |: Fitness trackers are exceptionally popular nowadays with consumers, though they're still pretty basic in their abilities. Even the more capable heart rate
Source: medgadget.com

Court tosses Kansas case that tried to challenge science education guidelines

Court tosses Kansas case that tried to challenge science education guidelines
Source: arstechnica.com

Hang Son Doong Image, Vietnam | National Geographic Photo of the Day: A hiker is dwarfed by the massive proportions of

Hang Son Doong Image, Vietnam | National Geographic Photo of the Day: A hiker is dwarfed by the massive proportions of the world's largest cave, Vietnam's Hang Son Doong, in this National Geographic Photo of the Day.
Source: nationalgeographic.com

Coral are bleaching along the entire Great Barrier Reef: Warm water is causing the most damaging event we’ve ever seen

Coral are bleaching along the entire Great Barrier Reef: Warm water is causing the most damaging event we’ve ever seen there.
Source: arstechnica.com

In Privacy Versus Security, End-to-End Encryption Is Definitely Winning: Viber and WhatsApp have switched it on to protect

In Privacy Versus Security, End-to-End Encryption Is Definitely Winning: Viber and WhatsApp have switched it on to protect 1.7 billion users worldwide
Source: ieee.org

Tell big brands: stop rainforest destruction: Big brands like PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson & Colgate are still using rainforest-destroying

Tell big brands: stop rainforest destruction: Big brands like PepsiCo, Johnson & Johnson & Colgate are still using rainforest-destroying palm oil. We have to force them to stop before the Indonesian rainforest is ablaze again.
Source: greenpeace.org.uk

Condamine River on fire in CSG mining area: Dramatic footage shows huge flames erupting from methane gas bubbling to the

Condamine River on fire in CSG mining area: Dramatic footage shows huge flames erupting from methane gas bubbling to the surface of the Condamine River, a result of ongoing coal seam gas mining in the region, some locals say.
Source: brisbanetimes.com.au

Inspiring read. Naomi Klein. This changes everything. A tirade against the very inconvenient truth that climate change

Inspiring read. Naomi Klein. This changes everything. A tirade against the very inconvenient truth that climate change is ultimately due to capitalism. A destructive capitalism that extracts from nature recklessly thinking growth can be without limit on a finite planet. However, the book ends with...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Skin cancer: Pair of drugs 'eliminate 20% of tumours' - BBC News: A fifth of people with advanced melanoma have no sign

Skin cancer: Pair of drugs 'eliminate 20% of tumours' - BBC News: A fifth of people with advanced melanoma have no sign of tumours in their body after treatment with a pair of immunotherapy drugs, a study shows.
Source: bbc.co.uk

Meta-Analysis: Metformin Should Still Be First-Line Diabetes Therapy, Even with Newer Drugs Available: By Amy Orciari Herman

Meta-Analysis: Metformin Should Still Be First-Line Diabetes Therapy, Even with Newer Drugs Available: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Evidence from a new meta-analysis "supports current guidelines with metformin as the recommended first-line...
Source: jwatch.org

Beer brewers toast Australian gluten-free barley: Australian scientists say they have developed the world's first WHO-approved

Beer brewers toast Australian gluten-free barley: Australian scientists say they have developed the world's first WHO-approved "gluten-free" barley, a breakthrough for global beer manufacturers which have had to use alternatives to barley such as rice and sorghum to brew gluten-free beer.
Source: reuters.com

NHS bullying made me want to kill myself and forced me to quit: I will never forget what happened to me and four years on

NHS bullying made me want to kill myself and forced me to quit: I will never forget what happened to me and four years on I still suffer trauma whenever I go near the hospital where I once worked
Source: theguardian.com

Fast food may expose consumers to phthalates: reported fast food intake, the type of fast food they ate and the fat content

Fast food may expose consumers to phthalates: reported fast food intake, the type of fast food they ate and the fat content of their food over the previous 24 hours. The surveys also included objective measurements of chemicals in urine samples.
Source: reuters.com

US Hospitals Prepare for Penis Transplants: This Medical News & Perspectives story discusses the clinical advances and future

US Hospitals Prepare for Penis Transplants: This Medical News & Perspectives story discusses the clinical advances and future promise of penis transplants. Bridget M. Kuehn. JAMA.
Source: jamanetwork.com

Integrate to Innovate: Using Standards to Push Content Forward: While many of the traditional publishing tasks remain intact,

Integrate to Innovate: Using Standards to Push Content Forward: While many of the traditional publishing tasks remain intact, new tasks that are much more technical in nature have changed the skill sets required to be scholarly publishers. As new and developing…
Source: sspnet.org