Conclusions: Our findings suggest that left ventricular longitudinal relaxation velocity declines as a part of healthy aging and is largely prognostically benign. The use of age-based normative values when considering an elderly population improves the risk discrimination of diastolic measures for incident HF or death.
Prognostically benign!
Source: Systolic BP Predicts Later CVD in Blacks | Medpage Today
Despite what you may be thinking this is not a racist article.
Conclusion: Metformin use in patients with moderate CKD, CHF, or CLD with hepatic impairment is associated with improvements in key clinical outcomes. Our findings support the recent changes in metformin labeling.
Japanese tinkerers created a tiny, flower-pollinating drone for a world without insects.
Source: Watch This $100 Drone Try to Do a Bumblebee’s Job
we are doomed.
Economist-mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb contends that there is a global riot against pseudo-experts
Source: ‘Trump makes sense to a grocery store owner’ – The Hindu
HT – Robert Gore.
Researchers are warning that simultaneous intake of alcohol and prescription opioids elevates the risk of respiratory depression, a potentially lethal complication.
Never before have American companies tried so hard to employ fewer people. From Google to Wal-Mart, the outsourcing boom is cutting costs for firms and job security for millions of workers.
Source: The End of Employees – WSJ
I told my children when they were leaving education that they would be well advised to look for customers not bosses.
It’s been exactly seven years since I read Charles Handy’s The Age of Unreason. And if you are familiar with Handy’s work the WSJ’s article should not come as a surprise. The surprise is how long it has taken for companies to figure out how to outsource effectively.
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