Background The global proliferation of mobile phones offers opportunity for improved non-communicable disease (NCD) data collection by interviewing participants using interactive voice response (IVR) ...

Background Chronic breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is effectively treated with pulmonary rehabilitation. However, baseline patient characteristics predicting ...

Objectives Evaluation of a pilot study of an online consultation system in primary care. We describe who used the system, when and why, and the National Health Service costs associated with its use.

Background People who are nearing the end of life are high users of healthcare. The cost to providers is high and the value of care is uncertain. Objectives To describe the pattern, trajectory and ...

The Phoenix Suns were always going to struggle to make it a competitive series against the Oklahoma City Thunder, but the timing of Mark Williams' latest injury hasn't helped. The center was a scratch ...

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

Evaluating outcomes and action planning The prescription of the SMART strategy does not obviate the need to monitor and adjust maintenance medications, nor does it obviate the need for action plans ...

Chinese computer maker GEEKOM has been selling mini PCs for about five years, and over that time the company has built a solid reputation. After reviewing several of the company’s mini PCs, I’ve ...

Background Integration of evidence into practice is suboptimal. Clinical pathways, defined as multidisciplinary care plans, are a method for translating evidence into local settings and have been ...

Each month The A.V. Club does our part to keep you up to date on the best of what’s coming out on Blu-ray and 4K UHD, which is especially important as streaming services become less and less reliable ...

1 Department of Family Medicine, Clalit Health Services, Haifa and Western Galilee District, Haifa, Israel 2 The Division of Family Medicine, The Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, ...

Center for Tobacco Products, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Christopher J Brown, Center for Tobacco Products, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Office ...