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Have smartphones and ubiquitous internet access affected sedentary time among children and adolescents?

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

In our study , recently published in the IJE , we used accelerometer measurements of sedentary time collected for the Norway-wide physical activity monitoring system to estimate that a 9-year-old boy or 15-year-old girl or boy spent, on average, 20 to 30 minutes more each day being sedentary in 2018 than in 2005.

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Misdiagnosing Legionellosis and Legionnaires Disease Can Be Fatal. But Why Is It Still Common?

Gideon

So much so that even the World Health Organization or WHO states, “Since many countries lack appropriate methods of diagnosing the infection or sufficient surveillance systems, the rate of occurrence is unknown. He had traveled to India to work on a farming project in 2005. Surprisingly, it is often overlooked.

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Managed Care History Part II- HMOs Give Way to Managed Care “Lite”

The Health Care Blog

After PacifiCare crashed post the 1998 Balanced Budget Act cuts, and struggled to refinance its debt, it was acquired by United Healthcare in 2005, bringing with it a huge sophisticated, delegated risk contracting network. A subsequent merger with FHP health plan destabilized the newly public company. This comes from his personal substack