Induced subgraphs of hypercubes and a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture: In this paper, we show that every (2^{n-1}+1)-vertex induced subgraph of
the n-dimensional cube graph has maximum degree at least sqrt{n}. This
result is best possible, and improves a logarithmic lower bound shown by Chung,
Füredi,...
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Thinking about the workforce of the future?  Then I highly recommend this best-selling book by Adam Kay - a trainee doctor in the NHS having burnt-out in his training before becoming a fully qualified Obstetrician. It is important reading for anyone wondering how the world of busy medical staff could...
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Humanitarian health computing using artificial intelligence and social media: A narrative literature review. "The feasibility of using AI to extract valuable information during a 
humanitarian health crisis is proven in many cases. There is a lack of 
research on how to integrate the use of AI into...
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Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review.  - PubMed - NCBI   "Although social media data has the potential to supplement data from 
regulatory agency databases; is able to capture less frequently reported
 AEs; and can identify AEs earlier than official...
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Climate change 'greatest threat', UN told: Naturalist Sir David Attenborough says climate change is humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years.
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Risk of first-time and recurrent depression in patients with psoriasis - a population-based cohort study.  - PubMed - NCBI
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NHS to save 'hundreds of millions' in landmark drug ruling in England: Two drug companies were trying to stop doctors offering a cheaper eye treatment.
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Half of young people want electric cars: Young drivers increasingly want to buy electric cars - but myths are still deterring older drivers, survey shows.
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China’s Emerging Role In Global Health  'Historically, China’s approach to DAH was grounded in the principles of people-to-people connection, including providing a health system that emphasizes primary health care and a community-based disease eradication strategy, principles that are generally in...
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I've been looking for another way of presenting evidence for instructional design that is more efficient than simple lectures. The data collected by Benjamin Bloom and published in 1984 seems useful and I've redrawn the graph so it looks more modern than the line drawings of the original.   Learning...
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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. 
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Testing blood procalcitonin levels to decide when to start and stop antibiotics in adults with acute respiratory tract infections | Cochrane
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Lost Languages Discovered in One of the World's Oldest Continuously Run Libraries: The centuries-old texts were erased, and then written over, by monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt
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8 Ways UX Design Theory Transformed My Approach to Course Design
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Science funding: Will 'picking winners' work? - BBC News: Why has the government returned to an industrial strategy abandoned in the 1980s?
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A qualitative exploration of student perceptions of the impact of progress tests on learning and emotional wellbeing: Progress testing was introduced to the MBChB programme at the University of Auckland in 2013. As there has been a focus in published literature on aspects relating to the format or function...
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A single-centre hospital-wide handoff standardisation report: what is so special about that?  "Using a relatively low-cost approach, they managed to implement the system across 15 medical departments, as well as nursing, train nearly 6000 healthcare staff and collect observational data on process reliability...
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How empathic is your healthcare practitioner? A systematic review and meta-analysis of patient surveys: A growing body of evidence suggests that healthcare practitioners who enhance how they express empathy can improve patient health, and reduce medico-legal risk. However we do not know how consistently...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Longitudinal evaluation of a pilot e-portfolio-based supervision programme for final year medical students: views of students, supervisors and new graduates: Little is known about how best to implement portfolio-based learning in medical school. We evaluated the introduction of a formative e-portfolio-based...
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The frailty journey so far: where are we heading?: Professor Martin Vernon qualified in 1988 in Manchester. Following training in the North West he moved to East London to train in Geriatric Medicine where he also acquired an MA in Medical Ethics a…
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