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What’s Your Score on This Sit-to-Stand Longevity Test?

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: What’s Your Score on This Sit-to-Stand Longevity Test? »

BlazeMeter by Perforce Revolutionizes Testing with Built-in Test Data Generation

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: BlazeMeter by Perforce Revolutionizes Testing with Built-in Test Data Generation »

“Blood test finds 50 types of cancer” – we’ve been down this path before

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: “Blood test finds 50 types of cancer” – we’ve been… »