The life insurance software vendor has acquired Resonant.
Source: IPipeline Buys Life Underwriting Tech Provider — Insurance Networking News
Author: SupremeCmdr
Artist Shipped Glass Boxes Inside FedEx Boxes to Produce Shattered Sculptures
In this intriguing sculptural series spanning 2005 to 2014, LA-based artist Walead Beshty packaged his artworks in FedEx boxes and shipped them across the country to exhibitions and galleries.
Priceless!
Does Stage 3 CKD Matter?
Source: Does stage-3 chronic kidney disease matter?: A systematic literature review
Conclusions
For patients with stage-3 CKD, risk of mortality was higher than for those without CKD, but the risk of progression was low. CKD registers provide an opportunity for GPs to assess the risk of patients developing CVD.
On Medical Equipment
Dear Plagiarist – Annals of Internal Medicine – American College of Physicians
I am aware that you recently admitted to wrongly publishing, as your own, a scientific research paper that I had submitted to Annals of Internal Medicine. After serving as an external peer reviewer on our manuscript, you published that same manuscript in a different medical journal a few months later. You removed the names of the authors and the research site, replacing them with the names of your coauthors and your institution.
Source: Dear Plagiarist | Annals of Internal Medicine | American College of Physicians
The fact that shit like this doesn’t surprise me anymore bothers me.
Meta-analysis of 10,000 scientific studies on marijuana – only three medical benefits — Quartz
Long-Term Risk of Dementia Among Survivors of Ischemic or Hemorrhagic Stroke
Conclusions—Stroke increases dementia risk. Survivors of intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage are at particularly high long-term risk of poststroke dementia.
Source: Long-Term Risk of Dementia Among Survivors of Ischemic or Hemorrhagic Stroke | Stroke
Association Between Exercise Capacity and Late Onset of Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, and Cognitive Impairment – Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Each 1–metabolic equivalent increase in exercise capacity conferred a nearly 8% reduction in the incidence of cognitive impairment.
Conclusion
Exercise capacity is strongly associated with cognitive function; the inverse association between fitness and cognitive impairment provides an additional impetus for health care providers to promote physical activity.
Incidence and risk of heart failure in SLE– Kim et al. 103 (3): 227 — Heart
Conclusions – The findings of this study suggest that patients with SLE have significantly higher risk of developing HF and a worse cardiovascular risk profile compared with the general population. These results need to be confirmed by prospective studies.
How Much Are Docs Responsible for Patients’ Opioid Abuse? – Medpage Today
F. Perry Wilson, MD, looks at the data on how patients get hooked
Source: How Much Are Docs Responsible for Patients’ Opioid Abuse? | Medpage Today
And if you’re having trouble falling asleep one night here’s the link to the source study.
Source: Incident and long-term opioid therapy among patients with ps… : PAIN
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