Eat as much meat as you like? Really?

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 10:22

foodpolitics.com - The press release from the Annals of Internal Medicine arrived last week under embargo, sent to me by several reporters: “New guidelines: No need to reduce red or processed meat…

Category: Science

Red meat study: Known health risks unfounded; Doctors decry guidelines

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 09:33

usatoday.com - Should you stop eating red meat for health reasons? That's the question rocking the nutrition and scientific community after guidelines published in a peer-reviewed journal said people…

Category: Science

Inside the Welsh NHS stockpile set up for no-deal Brexit

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 09:02

theguardian.com - A cavernous £11m warehouse stocked with £5m of medical products and food has been set up on a business park in south Wales in readiness for a no-deal Brexit. The Labour-led Welsh…

Category: Business

Private firms given £9.2bn of NHS budget despite Hancock promise

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 08:56

theguardian.com - The amount of the NHS budget going to private healthcare firms has reached unprecedented levels, despite the health secretary’s pledge to roll back outsourcing of patient care. The…

Category: Business

Artificial Intelligence Detects Heart Failure From One Heartbeat With 100% Accuracy

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 07:16

forbes.com - Doctors can detect heart failure from a single heartbeat with 100% accuracy using a new artificial intelligence-driven neural network. That’s according to a recent study published in…

Category: Science

Liyang Pan: Medical education—the tyranny of guidelines and the single best answer - The BMJ

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 07:15

blogs.bmj.com - Simplification has a place in medical education, says Liyang Pan, but shouldn’t be at the cost of teaching students about medicine’s complexity After years of running the gauntlet of…

Category: Science

Freedom’s Enemy Within » Politichicks.com

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 04:30

politichicks.com - Shortly after the heinous terrorist attacks of 9-11, the media played a video of Osama bin Laden boasting to a group of followers how the attacks were even more devastating than he…

Category: World

Kamala’s Plan to Transform the Criminal Justice System

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 04:06

kamalaharris.org - A plan to fundamentally transform our criminal justice system to shift away from mass incarceration and to invest in building safer and healthier communities Reforming our criminal…

Category: Politics

I worked with Thatcher and Heath but I can't call myself a Conservative anymore

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 03:19

politics.co.uk - With the Conservative party in its current state, it's not surprising One Nation Tories are abandoning it in droves. I worked for it for 30 years in a number of senior positions,…

Category: Politics

Homelessness could happen to any of us – the numbers shame us all | Liam Byrne

Wed, 10/02/2019 - 01:59

theguardian.com - It is the census that utterly shames us as a nation. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the number of people dying homeless is at an all-time high. An estimated…