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Tea and Coffee May Be Linked To Lower Risk of Stroke and

WEBDrinking coffee or tea may be linked with a lower risk of stroke and dementia, according to the largest study of its kind.The Guardian reports: Strokes cause 10% of deaths globally, …

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Drinking Coffee May Cut Risk of Chronic Liver Disease, Study

WEBThe team looked at the liver health of the participants over a median period of almost 11 years, finding 3,600 cases of chronic liver disease, with 301 deaths, and …

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A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot"

WEBEsther Schindler (16185) writes "Every team has someone who at the bottom of its bell curve: an individual who has a hard time keeping up with other team members. …

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MUMPS, the Programming Language For Healthcare

WEBMultiply that data problem by hundreds of thousands of patients. This is the fundamental problem that the programming language MUMPS (sometimes called just …

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What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov

WEBAn anonymous reader writes "Soured by his attempt to acquire a quote from healthcare.gov, James Turner compiled a short list of things developers can learn from the experience: …

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Oregon Withholding $25.6M From Oracle Over Health Website …

WEBitwbennett writes "Oregon is holding back $25.6 million in payments from Oracle (out of some $69.5 million Oracle claims it is owed) over work the vendor did on the state's …

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Developers Are Quitting To Escape From Your Bad Code

WEBTechnical debt, or 'code quality and codebase health', was the fourth most important issue cited by respondents. Salary still trumped it, with 82% citing it as one of …

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Open Source Medical Billing Software

WEBtr0tt3r writes "There is a thriving community of people who are devoted to using Free and Open Source Software to run Medical Practices. While there are many …

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NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox …

WEBFirst time accepted submitter conoviator writes "The NY Times has just published a piece providing more background on the healthcare.gov software project. …

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AI Will Soon Be Able To Decode Your Poop

WEBMicrobial health company Seed is launching a campaign to collect 100,000 fecal photos to build what developers say is the world's first poop image database. The …

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People Sensitive To Caffeine's Bitter Taste Drink More Coffee, …

WEBAn anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: A team of researchers conducted their analysis using data stored in something called the UK Biobank. More …

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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

WEBNashville has been a major player in the health-care scene for decades, and the city is now home to a vibrant network of health systems, startups and investment …

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UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an

WEBAn anonymous reader sends this news from El Reg: The U.K.'s National Health Service has ripped the Oracle backbone from a national patient database system …

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Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive

WEBI don't remember details, but the original reason for employer-provided health insurance was, I believe, a tax dodge cooked up when other types of incentives …

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Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd Passes Away

WEBMark Hurd, who was co-chief of Oracle, one of the world's top business-software firms, until he stepped aside last month for health reasons, died Friday. He was 62. From a report: …

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Brad Cox, Creator of Objective-C Programming Language, Dies At 76

WEBHe worked at the National Institutes of Health and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute before moving into the software profession. Dr. Cox was an …

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Is It Time to Stop Saying 'Learn to Code'

WEBThe HSIS study concludes, "Head Start has benefits for both 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds in the cognitive, health, and parenting domains, and for 3-year-olds in the …

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Will Unpredictable 'Franken-Algorithms' Have Deadly

WEBSolutions exist or can be found for most of the problems described here, but not without incentivizing big tech to place the health of society on a par with their bottom …

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Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows

WEBdavecb writes "The Obamacare sign-up site was a classic example of managers saying 'not invented here' and doing everything wrong, as described in Poul-Henning Kamp's …

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Oregon vs. Oracle: the Battle of Blame Heats Up

WEBRambo Tribble (1273454) writes "The ongoing efforts to assign responsibility for the disastrous attempts to create the Cover Oregon health exchange, …

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No Such Thing As a Tax-Free Lunch At Google

WEBA single payer health care system would free employers from the burden of providing health care, allow entrepreneurs to pursue their own business goals without …

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