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The Religious Roots of Shaming-as-Rehab Programs: The harsh tactics of some unregulated addiction-therapy groups have parallels

The Religious Roots of Shaming-as-Rehab Programs: The harsh tactics of some unregulated addiction-therapy groups have parallels in monastic tradition.
Source: theatlantic.com

Primary prevention and risk factor reduction in coronary heart disease mortality among working aged men and women in eastern

Primary prevention and risk factor reduction in coronary heart disease mortality among working aged men and women in eastern Finland over 40 years: population based observational study Pekka Jousilahti. Tiina Laatikainen. Markku Peltonen. Katja Borodulin. Satu Männistö. Antti Jula. Veikko Salomaa....
Source: bmj.com

What Instagrams Look Like in Food Deserts: Social-media photos can be a rich source of information about the diets of people

What Instagrams Look Like in Food Deserts: Social-media photos can be a rich source of information about the diets of people who don’t have access to grocery stores.
Source: theatlantic.com

Evolution seems to have occurred a million times faster than natural selection alone could explain. Could nature be using

Evolution seems to have occurred a million times faster than natural selection alone could explain. Could nature be using some hidden process? Just read Probably Approximately Correct by Leslie Valiant (a computational theorist). It explores a special class of algorithms which he calls 'ecorthims' that...
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Donald Clark Plan B: 10 powerful results from Adaptive (AI) learning trial at ASU

Donald Clark Plan B: 10 powerful results from Adaptive (AI) learning trial at ASU
Source: blogspot.co.uk

Google DeepMind Applies AI To Healthcare With NHS Partnership - Slashdot

Google DeepMind Applies AI To Healthcare With NHS Partnership - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

An Electric Car Battery That Will Get You From Paris to Brussels and Back: The metal-air battery carries more energy per

An Electric Car Battery That Will Get You From Paris to Brussels and Back: The metal-air battery carries more energy per kilogram than today’s lithium-ion batteries
Source: ieee.org

Google neural network can tell where photos were taken better than humans | ExtremeTech: This neural network has virtually

Google neural network can tell where photos were taken better than humans | ExtremeTech: This neural network has virtually visited millions of locations to learn what the world looks like.
Source: extremetech.com

Kenyan students staying in Kenya in greater numbers but quality concerns persist. Market intelligence for international

Kenyan students staying in Kenya in greater numbers but quality concerns persist. Market intelligence for international student recruitment: Kenyan students are becoming less likely to leave their country for major study abroad destinations, and more likely to pursue higher education within Kenya. The...
Source: icef.com

Berwick: "You cannot achieve excellence in combat with your future workforce" - Hospital Dr article on comments after the

Berwick: "You cannot achieve excellence in combat with your future workforce" - Hospital Dr article on comments after the imposition of the junior doctor contract.
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

Statin-Associated Autoimmune Myopathy - Now@NEJM: Statins significantly reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease,

Statin-Associated Autoimmune Myopathy - Now@NEJM: Statins significantly reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, are generally safe, and have an acceptable side-effect profile. It is now recognized, however, that in very rare cases, an autoimmune myopathy develops in patients treated with statins;...
Source: nejm.org

"to truly improve health equity, we need to swim even further upstream and engage in advocacy for an entire population.

"to truly improve health equity, we need to swim even further upstream and engage in advocacy for an entire population. The WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health was explicit that to achieve health equity, we need to tackle the inequitable distribution of power, money and resources". Swimming...
Source: bmj.com

The problem with Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles

"This article presents our reflections on the full potential of using PDSA in healthcare, but in doing so we explore the inherent complexity and multiple challenges of executing PDSA well. Ultimately, we argue that the problem with PDSA is the oversimplification of the method as it has been translated...
Source: bmj.com

Sci-Hub: How Does it Work?: Sci-Hub is a pirate website that enables users to access content that is held behind publisher

Sci-Hub: How Does it Work?: Sci-Hub is a pirate website that enables users to access content that is held behind publisher paywalls. This is how it works.
Source: sspnet.org

University leaders warn EU exit would harm UK research | Chemistry World

University leaders warn EU exit would harm UK research | Chemistry World
Source: rsc.org

Recent sea level rise is the fastest since 800 BCE: Another climate hockey stick, this one tracking the rise of the oceans.

Recent sea level rise is the fastest since 800 BCE: Another climate hockey stick, this one tracking the rise of the oceans.
Source: arstechnica.com

US Asks VW For Electric Cars - Slashdot

US Asks VW For Electric Cars - Slashdot
Source: slashdot.org

Just (re)read Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese? A great story. Change happens. Which one are you (at different times)

Just (re)read Spencer Johnson's Who Moved My Cheese? A great story. Change happens. Which one are you (at different times) Sniff, Scurry, Hem, or Haw?
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Royal colleges say that 40,000 deaths a year linked to air pollution and costs UK £20bn a year - Hospital Dr

Royal colleges say that 40,000 deaths a year linked to air pollution and costs UK £20bn a year - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk

Study Supports Prednisolone as First-Line Treatment Option for Gout: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild,

Study Supports Prednisolone as First-Line Treatment Option for Gout: By Amy Orciari Herman Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD Prednisolone and indomethacin are equally effective in relieving joint pain in patients with gout, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine...
Source: jwatch.org