Ultra-thin film could one day turn regular glasses into night vision goggles, researchers say
Developed by Australian and European researchers, the film works by converting infrared light into light visible to the human eyeA transparent metallic film allowing a viewer tosee in the dark could one day turn regular spectacles into night vision googles.The ultra-thin film, made of a semiconductor called gallium arsenide, could also be used to develop compact and flexible infrared sensors, scientists say.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 15, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Donna Lu Tags: Science Blindness and visual impairment Health Medical research Source Type: news

To Fix America ’s Broken Health Care System, We Must Rethink Who Counts as an Expert
Americans are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic like survivors of a wildfire surveying an unfamiliar landscape. As we take stock of what’s left, we are forced to rebuild, but we need not simply restore what was taken in a hollow echo of what we knew before. We can make health care and the infrastructure that supports it better, stronger, more resilient. To do that, as we learned at great cost over the past 15 months, we must value all the stakeholders in the system: not just insurance executives and hospital CEOs, but patients, disabled people, older adults, low-income people, people of color who have faced histori...
Source: TIME: Health - June 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: s.e. smith Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature Magazine Source Type: news

Submerged in Van Gogh: Would Absinthe Make the Art Grow Fonder?
Individual absorption is the order of the day at two touring spectacles devoted to the painter’s greatest hits.
Source: Reuters: Health - June 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Abolishing youth justice systems: children first, offenders nowhere - Case S, Haines K.
The 1980s decade of diversion in UK youth justice consolidated critiques of iatrogenic systemic contact and generated an abolitionist momentum that was significantly reversed by the 1990s punitive turn and 'new youth justice' strategies of modernisation, e...
Source: SafetyLit - May 20, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Snap ’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality
Bringing Snapchat’s Lenses from your phone to your face.
Source: Reuters: Health - May 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Can spectacles full of LIQUID stop you feeling travel sick?
As lockdown eases, travel is at the top of many people's wish list. But for a significant number, motion sickness (or kinetosis) is a major barrier to getting away.
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Matt Rhule 'disappointed' Teddy Bridgewater was critical of Panthers practice habits
Panthers coach Matt Rhule took issue with the critiques from his former quarterback, saying he was
Source: Reuters: Health - May 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Re-examining critiques of resilience policy: evidence from Barpak after the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal - Rushton S, Balen J, Crane O, Devkota B, Ghimire S.
The concept of 'resilience' has been subject to a number of critiques. In this paper, we examine three of the most common: i) that resilience is a 'top-down' policy discourse that pays too little regard to local specificities; ii) that resilience policy re...
Source: SafetyLit - May 5, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Beyond the bicycle: seeing the context of the gender gap in cycling - Shaw C, Russell M, Keall M, MacBride-Stewart S, Wild K, Reeves D, Bentley R, Woodward A.
Background In most countries women cycle less than men. This is despite the clear environmental and health benefits of active commuting. Feminist critiques suggest this gender gap reflects societal roles and values, yet there has been little empirical res...
Source: SafetyLit - April 17, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Pedestrians and Bicycles Source Type: news

Pandemic 2020 review – a masterly mapping of the Covid outbreak
The team behind Once Upon a Time in Iraq has compiled a moving and sometimes hopeful three-parter that offers a global perspective on the crisisLike the virus itself, the programmes about it have moved fromlocalised subjects to a slightly wider field and now have expanded to take in a global view. It hasn ’t been a perfectly linear progression, of course, but most of the first documentaries were composed largely of footage recorded by medical professionals themselves, at work and then – exhausted and tearful – at home.After that came socially distanced films recordingthe impact on local communities and bereaved famil...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 1, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Lucy Mangan Tags: Television & radio Culture Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research Science World news Source Type: news

Snapchat ’s Spectacles might become true AR glasses this time
Sure to be a Spectacle
Source: Reuters: Health - March 30, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

A year into the pandemic, Florida is booming and Republican Gov. DeSantis is taking credit
After a year of criticism by health experts, mockery from comedians and blistering critiques from political rivals, Florida Gov. Ron...
Source: Reuters: Health - March 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

CHES Continuing Education from the Network of the National Library of Medicine
Upcoming CHES Eligible Webinars All CHES-eligible courses from NNLM are free. To register, select the link in the title of the course in which you are interested and sign up with your username and password on nnlm.gov. Please note: to claim CHES CECH, a participant must log in to the session using the WebEx or Zoom link provided upon registration. In addition, you may only receive CHES CECH for a session if you have not previously received credit for attending the same course or watching the recording of the course. As of April 30, the NNLM Middle Atlantic Region offices will be closing due to a consolidation of NNLM regio...
Source: NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - March 4, 2021 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Erin Seger Tags: CHES Source Type: news

How Good is Photoscreening For Young Children ’ s Vision Problems?
This study showed that not only was smartphone photoscreening feasible, but was quite good at screening for potential vision problems. Smartphone photoscreening has the advantages of being more ubiquitously available and thus children in almost any location can be screened. A study of photoscreening using a handheld digital photoscreener in primary care offices validated the technology showing an overall referral rate of 10% to an ophthalmologist with suspected astigmatism, anisometropia and strabismus being the most common reasons. The overall positive predictive rate was 0.60. “…[O]ver 60% of children referre...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - January 4, 2021 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

ASTRO lauds delay of radiation therapy payment reform
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) is lauding a provision...Read more on AuntMinnie.comRelated Reading: Yom named editor in chief of Red Journal ASTRO releases rectal cancer RT guideline ASTRO critiques eviCore's benefits management policy CMS releases new payment model for radiation oncology New officers elected to ASTRO board
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - December 22, 2020 Category: Radiology Source Type: news

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