Youth Endowment Fund Toolkit for reducing youth violence
Good summary of evidence-based approaches to reducing violent youth crime. Follow the science not politicians. “An overview of existing research on approaches to preventing serious youth violence.”
Source: youthendowmentfund.org.uk
Biopharma 2020: A landmark year and a reset for the future
Biopharma in 2020 has shown what it can achieve when it works at its best. How can the industry build on this renewed sense of purpose in the years ahead? McKinsey biopharma 2020 3 Overarching trends Operating under a spotlight - expectation of innovationNavigating protracted economic uncertainty -...
Source: mckinsey.com
Google fires Margaret Mitchell, co-lead of its Ethical AI team
"Last December, Gebru was fired from Google after she tried to be outspoken about unethical AI. This prompted some 225 Google employees to club together to create a union, in the hope of preventing further unfair dismissal and protecting employee rights. Mitchell was a member of said union, but that...
Source: techspot.com
Preventing critical failure
Can routinely collected data be repurposed to predict avoidable patient harm? A quantitative descriptive study Objectives To determine whether sharing of routinely collected health service performance data could have predicted a critical safety failure at an Australian maternity service. Design Observational...
Source: bmj.com
Ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons
Ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons: There are less harmful ways to stop a lot of crime from happening in the first place. Listen to Jennifer Doleac — Associate Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University, and Director of the Justice Tech Lab — is an expert on empirical research...
Source: 80000hours.org
Interventions during pregnancy and childbirth for preventing cerebral palsy: an overview of Cochrane reviews | Cochrane
Interventions during pregnancy and childbirth for preventing cerebral palsy: an overview of Cochrane reviews | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org
No Advantage to Using High-Dose Vitamin D in Young Kids to Prevent Respiratory Illness: By the Editors High-dose vitamin
No Advantage to Using High-Dose Vitamin D in Young Kids to Prevent Respiratory Illness: By the Editors
High-dose vitamin D supplements provide no advantage over standard doses in preventing viral upper respiratory tract infections in young children, according to … NEJM Journal Watch.
Source: jwatch.org
Glucose targets for preventing diabetic kidney disease and its progression | Cochrane
Glucose targets for preventing diabetic kidney disease and its progression | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org
Food Allergy Guidelines Updated to Include Advice on Preventing Peanut Allergy: By Joe Elia Edited by André Sofair, MD,
Food Allergy Guidelines Updated to Include Advice on Preventing Peanut Allergy: By Joe Elia
Edited by André Sofair, MD, MPH, and William E. Chavey, MD, MS
Comprehensive advice on preventing peanut allergy has been added to the 2010 guidelines issued by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious...
Source: jwatch.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
Motivational interviewing (MI) for preventing alcohol misuse in young adults is not effective enough | Cochrane
Motivational interviewing (MI) for preventing alcohol misuse in young adults is not effective enough | Cochrane
Source: cochrane.org
Portion distortion report (2013) from the British Heart Foundation
Portion distortion report (2013) from the British Heart Foundation
Source: bhf.org.uk
The UK has 'one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world': The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems
The UK has 'one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world': The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world according to a damning new report which said the nation has an “outstandingly poor” record of preventing ill health.
Source: independent.co.uk
Tier 2 immigration cap preventing NHS from effective overseas recruitment - Hospital Dr
Tier 2 immigration cap preventing NHS from effective overseas recruitment - Hospital Dr
Source: hospitaldr.co.uk
Exercise and diabetes prevention. I was asked about some references and thought I'd share them here from our PgDip Diabetes
Exercise and diabetes prevention. I was asked about some references and thought I'd share them here from our PgDip Diabetes Programme - BMJ / University of Leicester.
The classic efficacy articles on exercise preventing diabetes are:
The Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study - http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200105033441801#t=abstract...
Source: nih.gov
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