Paediatric IBD patients not meeting recommended calcium & vitamin D intake: The study found that only 26.6% and 21.3% of
Paediatric IBD patients not meeting recommended calcium & vitamin D intake: The study found that only 26.6% and 21.3% of sufferers were achieving the current recommended intake of calcium and vitamin D respectively. Achieving the correct levels of calcium and vitamin D is essential for developing children,...
Source: eurekalert.org
Modern electioneering: Conservatives buy 'dementia tax' Google ad as criticism of policy grows: Tactic shows Tories are
Modern electioneering: Conservatives buy 'dementia tax' Google ad as criticism of policy grows: Tactic shows Tories are willing to adopt pejorative term for policy in order to tackle criticism of social care proposals
Source: theguardian.com
Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading
Tim Bray says "I Don’t Believe in Blockchain" ... and we should listen. The geeks are not using blockchain so some leading tech gurus feel it won't catch on. There are great difficulties evaluating emerging technology when they are on the "hype curve". The potential of a public record or ledger of...
Source: tbray.org
A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify
A Serious Game for Learning C Programming Language Concepts Using Solo Taxonomy: This paper conducts a study to identify pedagogical approaches and gameplay techniques involved in the development of serious games for teaching scientific courses in general especially programming languages. The concept...
Source: online-journals.org
Alphabet's influence. Good round-up of past initiatives in health technology from Google and current areas of interest to
Alphabet's influence. Good round-up of past initiatives in health technology from Google and current areas of interest to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. "Alphabet has quietly become the most influential player in Silicon Valley health tech: Alphabet has more than a dozen teams focused on health across...
Source: cnbc.com
What’s the “Take Home” from Research on Dementia Trends?: Eric Larson and Kenneth Langa discuss whether the risk of
What’s the “Take Home” from Research on Dementia Trends?: Eric Larson and Kenneth Langa discuss whether the risk of dementia is increasing or decreasing over time. Eric B. Larson. Kenneth M. Langa. PLOS Medicine.
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Is dance movement therapy an effective intervention for dementia? A review of the evidence | Cochrane
Is dance movement therapy an effective intervention for dementia? A review of the evidence | Cochrane
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The top reads of 2016 - as chosen by influential leaders around the world: Facebook asked 62 of its 'global influencers'
The top reads of 2016 - as chosen by influential leaders around the world: Facebook asked 62 of its 'global influencers' what they read in 2016. This is what they said.
Source: weforum.org
Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic
Association of Body Mass Index with DNA Methylation and Gene Expression in Blood Cells and Relations to Cardiometabolic Disease: A Mendelian Randomization Approach Michael M. Mendelson. Riccardo E. Marioni. Roby Joehanes. Chunyu Liu. Åsa K. Hedman. Stella Aslibekyan. Ellen W. Demerath. Weihua Guan....
Source: plos.org
The Internet Archive is building up a Trump presidential library — of everything he’s ever said, on video: President-elect
The Internet Archive is building up a Trump presidential library — of everything he’s ever said, on video: President-elect Donald J. Trump says a lot of things — and often denies a lot of the things he's said.
The Internet Archive launched Thursday a huge Trump Archive dedicated to housing videos...
Source: niemanlab.org
Efficacy and effectiveness of screen and treat policies in prevention of type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis
Efficacy and effectiveness of screen and treat policies in prevention of type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of screening tests and interventions: Objectives To assess diagnostic accuracy of screening tests for pre-diabetes and efficacy of interventions (lifestyle or metformin) in...
Source: bmj.com
Increase in US Suicide Rates and the Critical Decline in Psychiatric Beds: This Viewpoint discusses the apparent association
Increase in US Suicide Rates and the Critical Decline in Psychiatric Beds: This Viewpoint discusses the apparent association between a reduction of psychiatric beds and increasing suicide rates in the United States, and proposes an expansion of inpatient psychiatric treatment facilities as a component...
Source: jamanetwork.com
What to Learn from US Govt Strategy on AI. There is an urgency. It's commercial. China is already in the lead. There is
What to Learn from US Govt Strategy on AI. There is an urgency. It's commercial. China is already in the lead. There is no clear vision where to focus funding. The US has a good roadmap and wants to expand the workforce. The US is not going for general intelligence. "On October 12, 2016, President...
Source: digitopoly.org
Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective
Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study: Objective To estimate the effect of playing Pokémon GO on the number of steps taken daily up to six weeks after installation of the game.
Design Cohort study using online survey data.
Participants...
Source: bmj.com
Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures.
Can we accurately classify physicians as high vs. low quality? "Medicare aims to tie 90% of reimbursement to quality measures. The potential for quality-linked reimbursement to incentivized improved quality of care, however, depends critically on whether physician quality can be measured reliably."
Source: healthcare-economist.com
Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding
Brain Computation Is Organized via Power-of-Two-Based Permutation Logic: There is considerable scientific interest in understanding how cell assemblies - the long-presumed computational motif - are organized so that the brain can generate cognitive behavior. The Theory of Connectivity proposes that...
Source: frontiersin.org
Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia,
Church of England to close Surrey care home owing to lack of staff: Decision will leave 30 residents, many with dementia, of Manormead care home near Hindhead needing somewhere else to live
Source: theguardian.com
Urine test for fatigue could help prevent accidents: Doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers and bus drivers have at least
Urine test for fatigue could help prevent accidents: Doctors, pilots, air traffic controllers and bus drivers have at least one thing in common -- if they're exhausted at work, they could be putting lives at risk. But the development of a new urine test, reported in the ACS journal Analytical Chemistry,...
Source: eurekalert.org
New computational model provides a tool for improving the production of valuable drugs: The model allows scientists to make
New computational model provides a tool for improving the production of valuable drugs: The model allows scientists to make comprehensive simulations without doing tedious experiments in the laboratory. Hence, the model will tell the scientist, which metabolic pathways are involved in the production...
Source: eurekalert.org
What Edtech Can Learn from Theranos (EdSurge News): In 2014, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes graced the covers of Forbes,
What Edtech Can Learn from Theranos (EdSurge News): In 2014, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes graced the covers of Forbes, Fortune and Inc. magazines. The next year, Holmes was named one of Time's Most Influential People and the Stanford drop-out had raised more than $600M in private capital. When I...
Source: edsurge.com
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