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• Newer, older insulin formulations are similar for lowering glucose

  Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Basal insulin analogues do not produce substantially different glucose-lowering effects in adults with Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in Annals of Internal Medicine. Furthermore, evidence gathered in the study suggests that certain insulin regimens may be associated with less weight gain or lower risk for nocturnal hypoglycemia. The study included 39 trials, with a total of 26,195 patients and studied 10 different basal insulin analogues.

• Will the days of ‘going for a drive’ come to an end?

  Lucy Wallwork Transportation Technology & Automotive

  "Autotelic travel" is undirected travel. In contrast with directed travel, this is travel for the sake of enjoyment, not in order to reach a destination. In the United States, this has manifested culturally as the tradition of "going for a drive." But with the new sustainability agenda, and the urgent need to reduce automobile trips for environmental and societal reasons, is this a luxury we can still afford?

• Is the future of food in the chemical makeup of dishes?

  Bambi Majumdar Food & Beverage

  Your future pantry may sport glucose, tartaric acid, piperine and other compounds instead of spice racks. French scientist Hervé This, known for his pioneering technique called note-by-note cuisine, believes the future of food lies in cooking with chemical compounds. More than style and convenience, the method has the potential to increase and improve global food security. Note-by-note cuisine is a style of cooking that employs chemical constituents of traditional ingredients like meat and vegetables instead of the foods themselves.

• Can long-term tolerance of transplanted organs be improved?

  Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied Healthcare

  Heart transplants survive longer in mice with genetically enhanced DEPTOR, a regulatory protein in immune cells. The study was conducted at Boston Children's Hospital and published in the July 3 issue of the American Journal of Transplantation. In the experiment, mice that received heart transplantations but no immunosuppressive drugs survived an average of seven days. However, mice treated with genetically enhanced DEPTOR activity in their T cells survived an average of 35 days.

• Why the quickest thing you can do to shoot better is something you shouldn’t…

  Mike Ox Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  I’m going to let you in on a little firearms training secret. It’s a trick used by instructors to get shooters on target quickly when they’re having problems, but don’t have the time to work with every shooter on the line as much as they’d like. Roughly half of the shooters I work with keep using this trick for the rest of their lives. The problem is…this technique that works so well shooting paper is almost guaranteed to fail in a life-and-death shooting situation.

• Plastics innovations spur changes in medical device markets

  Bill Becken Engineering

  Plastics are playing their part in the disruptive medical device market, which is now subject to several eye-popping trends, including miniaturization, point-of-care (POC) diagnostics, multipurpose packaging and globalization. The medical plastics industry has so far adapted well to the changing device landscape, with new products arising from novel groupings of manufacturing professionals such as design engineers, mold makers, material suppliers, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

• 5 benefits to plastic food service packaging

  Tracy Szwec Food & Beverage

  Today, it seems that there is a push to move to other products for food service packaging besides plastic. While there is understandably an abundance of plastic being mishandled from the waste standpoint, the reality is that there is no better product to use for packaging of food products, both from a retail and restaurant sales standpoint. Consider these five benefits to choosing plastic.

• The patient experience: How you can know

  Kent McAllister Healthcare Administration

  How you can know. This is not a question; it is a statement. Albeit, it is the appropriate question to ask in most industries where any management discipline is applied. Let’s examine patient experience and how you can know what is actually happening from the patient’s perspective in your health system. There are serious challenges to measuring patient experience, and these challenges have recently taken on increased significance as the industry tide shifts.

• 2 succession planning rules for unique roles

  Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

  Single points of failure can instantly disrupt any business. Institutional knowledge is great unless it is locked inside one head. Having a team member that can rock multiple roles is awesome, unless the role becomes a purple unicorn that can never be replaced. Just as rock star employees can elevate the team, the productivity and acceleration they provide a business is tenuous if they cannot be replicated. Follow these two rules to create a succession plan for even the most unique role.

• A recent data breach could put law enforcement officers at risk

  Bambi Majumdar Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  What happens when crime fighters are exposed to a huge cybersecurity problem? It puts the safety of all at risk. This was on the mind of many when a trove of law enforcement data was leaked in late June. The breach happened at the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center. The training center for active shooter response situations is at Texas State University and is funded in part by the federal government.

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