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Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement: This 2018 Recommendation

Screening for Osteoporosis to Prevent Fractures: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement: This 2018 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for osteoporosis with bone measurement testing to prevent osteoporotic fractures in women 65...
Source: jamanetwork.com

Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal - IEEE Spectrum

Experts Bet on First Deepfakes Political Scandal - IEEE Spectrum
Source: ieee.org

Build Your Own Google Neural Synthesizer - IEEE Spectrum

Build Your Own Google Neural Synthesizer - IEEE Spectrum
Source: ieee.org

Charging patients for appointments 'against founding principle of NHS', says RCGP

Charging patients for appointments 'against founding principle of NHS', says RCGP
Source: rcgp.org.uk

International Diagnostic Championship Inviting Med Students Worldwide to Participate |: Medical students around the world

International Diagnostic Championship Inviting Med Students Worldwide to Participate |: Medical students around the world are invited to participate in the first international diagnostic championship hosted by International Federation of
Source: medgadget.com

Contact Lens Measures Glucose, pH, Lactate in Eye |: At Purdue University researchers have come up with a way of reliably

Contact Lens Measures Glucose, pH, Lactate in Eye |: At Purdue University researchers have come up with a way of reliably attaching thin film sensors and other small electronic devices to soft contact
Source: medgadget.com

Understanding and Creating Calculators for Medical Diagnoses: Exclusive Interview with MDCalc |:   MDCalc is a 13-year-old

Understanding and Creating Calculators for Medical Diagnoses: Exclusive Interview with MDCalc |:   MDCalc is a 13-year-old medical reference started by two practicing emergency medicine physicians, Dr. Joe Habboushe and Dr. Graham Walker. A
Source: medgadget.com

APOD: 2018 June 13 - Red Cloudbow over Delaware

APOD: 2018 June 13 - Red Cloudbow over Delaware
Source: nasa.gov

Network theory links behavioral information flow with contained epidemic outbreaks: Over the last two decades, large-scale

Network theory links behavioral information flow with contained epidemic outbreaks: Over the last two decades, large-scale outbreaks of infectious diseases have resulted in high levels of morbidity, mortality, and overall economic burden for affected regions. As complex networks become increasingly popular...
Source: phys.org

WiFi Radio Signals Let MIT Researchers Track Movements of People |: Patients that wander away from their beds are a constant

WiFi Radio Signals Let MIT Researchers Track Movements of People |: Patients that wander away from their beds are a constant headache for nurses, while those that stay bedridden for too long can create problems of their own. New technology from MIT may soon allow hospital staff to see in real time the...
Source: medgadget.com

Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980: The spending began soaring beyond that of other

Medical Mystery: Something Happened to U.S. Health Spending After 1980: The spending began soaring beyond that of other advanced nations, but without the same benefits in life expectancy.
Source: nytimes.com

Smartphone System Detects Food Borne Pathogens |: At Purdue University, a team of engineers and food scientists has developed

Smartphone System Detects Food Borne Pathogens |: At Purdue University, a team of engineers and food scientists has developed a smartphone-powered device, and accompanying underlying technology, for detecting food borne pathogenic bacteria.
Source: medgadget.com

Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration

Wristband with Sensors to Improve Lives of Dementia Patients. "At the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration in Berlin, Germany researchers are working on a sensor and software package that would help people developing dementia to slow down the disease progression [by this I presume...
Source: medgadget.com

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Guardian, written by Neil Lawrence, the founding editor of the freely available journal Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: Machine learning has demonstrated...
Source: slashdot.org

20 important takeaways for learning world from Mary Meeker's brilliant tech trends: Mary Meeker’s slide deck  has

20 important takeaways for learning world from Mary Meeker's brilliant tech trends: Mary Meeker’s slide deck  has a reputation of being the Delphic Oracle of tech. But, at 294 slides it’s a lot to take in. Don’t worry, I...
Source: blogspot.com

APOD: 2018 June 4 - Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano

APOD: 2018 June 4 - Moon Setting Behind Teide Volcano
Source: nasa.gov

The Greatest Failure in What used to be Called Medicine | Dr. David Healy

The Greatest Failure in What used to be Called Medicine | Dr. David Healy
Source: davidhealy.org

Phrase of the day: Elaborative Interrogation - Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is

Phrase of the day: Elaborative Interrogation - Generating an explanation for why an explicitly stated fact or concept is true. Evidence suggests it is moderately effective and should be very familiar for anyone with young children in their family. It is one of ten techniques frequently used by learners...
Source: psychologicalscience.org

Understanding Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Gibbs Sampling by coding it from scratch. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)

Understanding Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Gibbs Sampling by coding it from scratch. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a machine-learning technique that by the magic of many (many many) small calculations it can detect patterns in data and cluster documents, for example, into similar topics. ...
Source: github.io

Healthcare students' perceptions about their role, confidence and competence to deliver brief public health interventions

Healthcare students' perceptions about their role, confidence and competence to deliver brief public health interventions and advice: Public health improvement has long been an important focus for the United Kingdom Department of Health. The Allied Health Professions (AHP) Federation has 84,000 members,...
Source: biomedcentral.com