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Rhinos, even baby ones, are not quite cute, but this news fits the cute critter category. A World Wildlife Fund team reports that its robotic cameras have returned images from a national park showing young javan rhinos and what presumably [...]
There are three levels of certainty in defining the efficacy of a treatment standard, means that there are well-conducted scientific studies with control groups. Findings showing unquestionable efficacy, safety and benefits of treatment. Option: There are scientific studies showing benefits acceptable but variability in outcome, and alternative, treatments that have worked in small groups that [...]
Did anybody run this front page? In the NY Times, under Leslie Kaufman’s byline and the single column hed Scientists Are Cleared Of Misuse of Data, it was on p. A18. So dies ClimateGate (in a perfect world). The news, which reinforces similar conclusions reached by investigators in ClimateGate Central, the UK, is that for [...]
(English intro to Spanish lang. post) Four Chilean reporters have a story in La Tercera explaining that this year’s ocean-atmosphere phenomenon “La Niña” is the most extreme in South-America in the last 35 years. They use many different sources, data and infographics to explain how “la niña” is created, and what affects its intensity. It’s [...]
Here’s is some weird, cool news, and that is no figure of speech. Two groups of researchers, one led by a researcher in Mexico and the other by man in Russia, report strnge doings inside an expanding supernova debris cloud, well known to astronomers and called Cassiopeia A. The neutron star born of the progenitor’s [...]
(English intro to Spanish lang. post) Several journalists from Latin America (none from Spain) attended the AAAS meeting last weekend in Washington DC. They wrote about bionic limbs, bioprinting, international science policy and diplomacy, cognitive benefits of bilingualism, or the next solar storm. But also important: they met to discuss the 3 year project that [...]
Not many people with asthma qualify for disability benefits, but those who do find them vital in maintaining their independence. The suitability of the medical test has been a longstanding concern for me, as it needs to recognise the changing pattern of a variable condition like severe asthma. Simply put, someone may be well the day they are assessed but still unable to work. My concern appears validated by the fact that 40% of judgements are overturned on appeal.
Snoring is so common that many consider it normal and a characteristic of being asleep. But not all snoring is acceptable The air we breathe must pass through a series of spaces and conduits in the upper airways, nose, nasopharynx, oropharynx and hypopharynx. The tickets are for driving, warm and humidify the air we breathe, [...]I met with Earl Howe, Health Minister, again this morning on behalf of the campaign for free prescriptions in England. As you will know, the Westminster Government has decided not to introduce free prescriptions for people with long-term conditions in England, despite being recommended to do so by an independent review and despite charges being abolished in the rest of the UK.
Brain Health: * The resveratrol in grapes has been associated with better brain health and is believed to protect against acute and chronic neurological diseases. * It was shown in animals to exert protection against brain damage caused by a neurotoxin. * Resveratrol belongs to a family of compounds that inhibit the formation of tiny [...]I spent a morning last week with the British Medical Association, a body representing doctors, who are increasingly worried about the reforms to the NHS in England. One change which is most worrying them is the proposal to make doctors ? and not NICE ? the people who decide whether or not drugs are available on the NHS in England.
The two major causes of deafness can be genetic or environmental factors, although between 20 and 30 percent of cases of hearing loss are unknown. Children may be suffering deafness of middle ear infections that were not treated well or time, or after a meningitis, and adults often due to exposure to noise, ototoxic drugs, [...]This weekend Asthma UK is holding an event for young people with asthma in Manchester. It?s billed as an opportunity for people to ?get it off your chest? and we are expecting up to 70 young people to be there, including members of our Youth Forum.If you could change one thing to improve asthma care, what would it be? Now is a good time to have your say. NHS Improvement, an arm of the health service which develops and communicates good practice in England, has just issued a call for ideas to improve asthma care.
It is a system of mental and physical exercises, very simple, whose primary objective is to improve the different thought processes. The gym is based on the principle that there is no learning without movement, because it generates or develops neural networks or connections. It is part of what Aristotle said: There is nothing in [...]