Local Men Local Communities: a rural placed-based approach to increase men's engagement with mental health training and events - Bransgrove NJ, Porter JE, Prokopiv V, Wildblood R, Prezioso M, Bradley V, Look B.
ISSUE ADDRESSED: Suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians aged 15-49 (Department of Health and Aged Care Suicide in Australia, https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/mental-health-and-suicide-prevention/suicide-in-australia, 2021). With the l... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 4, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Community-Based Prevention Source Type: news
Acceptability of two perturbation-based balance training paradigms: perturbation treadmill vs dynamic stability training in the presence of perturbations - Hezel N, Br üll L, Arampatzis A, Schwenk M.
INTRODUCTION: Perturbation-based balance training is promising for fall prevention in older adults mimicking real-life fall situations at a person's stability thresholds to improve reactive balance. Hence, it can be associated with anxiety, but knowledge a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 4, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news
Daniel Kahneman obituary
Influential psychologist who studied how people make decisions and changed the way economists thinkThe psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who has died aged 90, won the 2002 Nobel prize for economics despite describing himself as “mostly cheering … from the sidelines” of the subject. He achieved celebrity status in 2011 with the pop psychology bookThinking, Fast and Slow, at the age of 77 and after a lifetime of rigorous academic research. Such unpredictable events were typical of his long and eclectic career, while also provoking him to ask the myriad questions about human behaviour that formed the basis of his often coun...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 4, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Georgina Ferry Tags: Psychology Science Economics Nobel economics prize Source Type: news
Vana Launches DAO Allowing Users To Control and Sell Their Reddit Data
The Reddit Data DAO will offer tokenized incentives to users contributing data, creating AI models, and providing computation to the project. A new DAO wants to help Reddit users monetize their data for use in training AI models. On April 3, Vana, a decentralized network hosting “user-owned…#redditdata #dao #reddit #api #vana #gpu (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
AIUM president-elect previews UltraCon 2024
Attendees at this year’s UltraCon in Austin, TX, can look forward to the new research and technology to be highlighted -- as well as the solar eclipse that will take place during the conference.
UltraCon, formerly the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) annual meeting, from April 6 to 10 will feature research covering several areas in ultrasound, including point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), elastography, contrast enhancement, and AI, among others.
“There’s that synergy that occurs when you get all these people together,” said David Jones, MD, president-elect of AIUM. “I think everybody is going t...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Imaging Leaders Source Type: news
9 ways to ease the radiologist workforce shortage
Radiology is experiencing a workforce shortage, but there are at least 9 ways to mitigate it, according to a clinical perspective published April 3 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Lead author James Rawson, MD, of Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston and colleagues noted that, as the "current radiology landscape has an imbalance between the rising demand for radiology services and the national radiologist workforce available," it's crucial to implement creative strategies to address the workforce shortage issue.
"Rather than working longer and/or faster, there are ways for radiologists to work smarter," it noted...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Practice Management Source Type: news
How GPUs Are Disrupting High-Performance Computing
Graphics Processing Units, or GPUs, have moved beyond their original role of rendering video game graphics and are now used in a variety of high-performance computing applications (HPC), from AI training to zooplankton classification. To help…#visualcapitalist #cpu #dram #ram #gpu #corevalues #valueofcores #pong #beyondgraphics #frontier (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fortune hires Snyder as managing editor
Fortune magazine has hired Benjamin Snyder to be a managing editor. He will be focused on hiring and recruiting, launching training and editorial strategy initiatives, kicking off partnerships with journalism organizations, and supporting career development opportunities. Snyder previously was a…#benjaminsnyder #snyder #linkedin #odyssey #fortunecom (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Methods to promote safe driving through metacognition and compensatory behavior - Ikemoto S, Kamiji T, Yoshida E, Suzuki K.
We proposed a method to evaluate the degree of safe driving based on a cognitive test utilizing the Trail Making Test-J Part B (TMT-J) and a minimum TTC using a driving simulator. We also proposed a training program to acquire compensatory behavior through... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 3, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news
Department of anesthesiology skilled peer support program outcomes: second victim perceptions - Bursch B, Ziv K, Marchese S, Aralis H, Bufford T, Lester P.
This study evaluated sec... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 3, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Brickbat: Don't Forget Your Lines
Training materials for Scottish police say that actors performing a play could run afoul of the nation's new hate speech law, which bans communication that could stir up hatred of protected groups. Supporters of the law had claimed it would only apply to producers, directors, and others involved…#reasoncom (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
RBS: Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Socially Disadvantaged Groups Grant for Fiscal Year 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Business-Cooperative Service (RBS) announces the availability of up to $3 million in competitive grants under the Socially Disadvantaged Groups Grant (SDGG) program for fiscal year 2024. The purpose of the SDGG program is to provide technical assistance to socially disadvantaged groups in rural areas through cooperatives and Cooperative Development Centers. Technical assistance includes feasibility studies, business plans, strategic planning, and leadership training. Applications are due by June 3, 2024. (Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center)
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - April 3, 2024 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Modal, which offers employees personalized technical and AI skills training, raised a $25M Series A co-led by Left Lane Capital and Ensemble VC
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Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Navy SEAL Foundation Announces New Official Partner TRX
The Navy SEAL Foundation, the premier nonprofit supporting the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) community, is proud to announce a new partnership with TRX®, the global leader in functional training equipment. In 2023, TRX initiated a $2 million gear donation to the Navy SEAL Foundation and... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - April 2, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: NPT VET DEI Source Type: news
Endowment Funds Can Revolutionise Sarcoma Care in Developing Countries
Kaposi's sarcoma virus. The World Health Organization predicts a 60% rise in global cancer cases over the next two decades, with an 81% increase expected in low- and middle-income countries. Credit: Shutterstock. By Nicholas OkumuNAIROBI, Apr 2 2024 (IPS) Despite global childhood cancer mortality rates dropping by half over the past 50 years, these promising statistics do not extend to Africa and the Global South, where limited resources mean that most cancers are diagnosed at advanced stages.
Consequently, the region reports survival rates of as low as 15% for musculoskeletal sarcomas, a group of cancers that develop in t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 2, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nicholas Okumu Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
