Your ability to sit on the floor and get back up again without using your hands, knees or other support may be a powerful indicator of longevity, especially if you’re 50 or older. Known as the sitting-rising test (SRT), this deceptively simple task was developed in the 1990s as a means to evaluate the non-aerobic… Read More »
Latest BlazeMeter release accelerates testing and quickly creates test data for functional, performance, and virtual services. MINNEAPOLIS, February 3, 2022 — Perforce Software, a provider of solutions to enterprise teams requiring productivity, visibility, and scale along the software development lifecycle, announced a new capability in BlazeMeter, BlazeMeter Test Data. This new feature allows testers and… Read More »
Shoddy, incomplete, fawning news coverage of screening tests is one of the most clearly established problems in health news coverage – something HealthNewsReview.org has revealed countless times over the past 15 years. A public relations news release 22 days ago – from “a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early” – touted study… Read More »
[unable to retrieve full-text content]Checking for tell-tale compounds could help spot the degenerative brain condition, experts say. BBC News – Health
Getty Images For years, substances called tau protein or beta-amyloid have been theorized to be signs or causes of Alzheimer’s disease. There have been many reports of tests and treatments based on theories that tau and/or amyloid are at least signs, if not causes, of Alzheimer’s. Scientific uncertainty remains about the precise role of tau… Read More »