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email article Turning a lifestyle intervention for type 2 diabetes into a game significantly increased participants' physical activity, especially if an element of competition was introduced, the randomized iDiabetes trial found. In this 1-year trial of an intervention that included a wrist device to track steps and game elements such as points and levels, participants randomized to small teams in which they competed for leaderboard status significantly increased their mean daily step count relative to a control group (606 more steps, 95% CI 201 to 1,011, P=0.003), noted Mitesh Patel, ...

Date Time Cholesterol-Lowering Statins Prescribed Less Later in Day PHILADELPHIA— Furthering efforts to understand why potentially life-saving statins are so under-prescribed among American patients with heart disease, a new study shows that clinicians are more likely to sign a script for them earlier in the day. The new study by researchers in Penn Medicine’s Nudge Unit found that patients with the very first appointments of the day were most likely to have statins prescribed, and the odds progressively fell through the morning and remained low throughout the afternoon. The study was pub...

Spread the love Masks vs anti-masks. Lockdown vs anti-lockdown. Vaccine vs anti-vaccine. People talking about how there is no virus, its never been isolated & everything is all just some cabal stunt they call a ‘plandemic’. Just some of the confusion that has been as epidemic as COVID itself, but why? Neil Sanders joins me to expose the truth behind the UK governments seemingly inept handling of the COVID pandemic. Did the UK Go for Herd Immunity? By Neil Sanders (visit website… CLICK HERE)  On the 3 rd February 2020 Boris Johnson made a speech to the Tory party donors in which he sa...

Sat, Mar 13, 2021 The post-COVID world this week: The Quad’s vaccine-production deal, the post-pandemic office, and the global effects of the US stimulus Coronavirus Alert by Atlantic Council The future is here: A guide to the post-COVID world 03/12/2021 Welcome to your guide to where the world is headed during the pandemic era and beyond. Each week, we’ll bring you the latest and most significant expert insights and international news about how coronavirus is reshaping international affairs. To stay updated each week, sign up to the newsletter here. A q...

Ice-skating Rink, Airport Terminals, Disneyland: The New Vaccination Hubs Ice-skating Rink, Airport Terminals, Disneyland: The New Vaccination Hubs More than 50 countries are racing to vaccinate their populations to fend off the rising death toll of a third wave of infections. Updated: January 25, 2021 11:43 am IST Across the world the goal is the same: Inoculate a maximum amount of people as fast as possible. In Berlin, the process of transforming large, now unused public spaces into mass vaccination hubs started weeks before a vaccine was approved. Albrecht Broemme, the project manager ...