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Mashup Score: 0Teaching beyond retirement: the consultant neuroradiologist - 53 minute(s) ago
Consultant neuroradiologist Ian Turnbull tells Adrian O’Dowd why he was determined to remain involved in training doctors despite retiring Retirement does not mean a doctor has to stop loving medicine or wanting to be involved in training the next generation of clinicians, says Ian Turnbull. Edinburgh born Turnbull was a consultant neuroradiologist at North Manchester General Hospital for 19 years and then at Salford Royal Hospital until his retirement in 2008. Since then, until very recently, he was an honorary consultant neuroradiologist to Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in a teaching role for fourth year medical students at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor, Wales, and a teaching lead at Glan Clwyd Hospital. Turnbull has never lost his enthusiasm for medicine. “To this day …
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Mashup Score: 0Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Adults: Diagnosis and Management - 54 minute(s) ago
A summary of NICE guidance on the diagnosis and management of IBS in primary care. Includes dietary, lifestyle, pharmacological, and alternative approaches
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Mashup Score: 0Tripura begins digitization of patient health records, healthcare facilities - ET HealthWorld - 1 hour(s) ago
Digital Health Records: Speaking to the reporters at the NHM state headquarters here in Agartala, Das said, “Each of the healthcare professionals, pharmacies, and labs would be brought under the same digital platform through this drive. Besides, the patients would be issued ABHA (Ayushman Bharat Health Account) cards. Each of the individuals who register with the database will be issued a unique number.”
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Mashup Score: 0We deserve an NHS in which staff and patients are safe from harm - 1 hour(s) ago
Editorial: As the senior official in charge of the 1.4 million-strong NHS workforce concedes that sexual harassment within the service is endemic and a ‘shameful’ stain on its reputation – following shocking evidence uncovered by The Independent – urgent action must now be taken to ensure it is stamped out
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Mashup Score: 3Small Business Transformations Put the AI in Main Street - 1 hour(s) ago
To unlock big changes, small businesses are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) tools to drive growth and stand out.
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With the increase in obesity prevalence worldwide, considerable efforts have been made to investigate the molecular and neurohormonal mechanisms of bodyweight control, as a means to identify novel therapeutic targets. As a paradigmatic example, characterisation of the physiological actions of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) paved the way for development of long-acting GLP-1 analogues that are revolutionising the pharmacological management of obesity.1 Similarly, recognition of the fundamental roles of the leptin–melanocortin system in bodyweight homeostasis has opened up potential pathways to manage some forms of obesity.
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Mashup Score: 3Setmelanotide for the treatment of acquired hypothalamic obesity: a phase 2, open-label, multicentre trial - 1 hour(s) ago
These findings support setmelanotide as a novel effective treatment of hypothalamic obesity.
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Mashup Score: 1FDA finalizes plan to regulate some lab-developed tests - 1 hour(s) ago
The agency released its final plan on Monday. Overall, the FDA estimates that around 12,000 labs will have to start submitting their tests.
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Mashup Score: 6Evaluation of the SCAT 5 tool in the assessment of concussion in Para athletes: a Delphi study - 1 hour(s) ago
Objectives To investigate if the sport concussion assessment tool version 5 (SCAT5) could be suitable for application to Para athletes with a visual impairment, a spinal cord injury, or a limb deficiency. Methods A 16-member expert panel performed a Delphi technique protocol. The first round encompassed an open-ended questionnaire, with round 2 onwards being composed of a series of closed-ended statements requiring each expert’s opinion using a five-point Likert scale. A predetermined threshold of 66% was used to decide whether agreement had been reached by the panel. Results The Delphi study resulted in a four-round process. After round 1, 92 initial statements were constructed with 91 statements obtaining the targeted level of agreement by round 4. The expert panellist completion rate of the full four-round process was 94%. In the case of athletes with a suspected concussion with either limb deficiencies or spinal cord injuries, the panel agreed that a baseline assessment would be ne
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Mashup Score: 5What does a scientist look like? - 1 hour(s) ago
Where I Work is an award-winning photography feature from the journal Nature. It celebrates the many roles and types of research undertaken by scientists globally, and challenges stereotypical perceptions of what a scientist does, or what they look like.
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