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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/46346741

A major overhaul is expected of the national body that issues Canada's cancer screening guidelines.

The changes were ordered by the federal health minister, following an external review of the Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

The task force is an arm's-length panel set up by the federal government to publish national guidelines for family doctors, advising them on when to send their patients for routine screenings of various illnesses, including common cancers.

But the panel has been criticized for years for failing to fully take in expert advice, using outdated research and being too slow to update its guidelines. Many of the task force's recommendations are over a decade old.

 

A major overhaul is expected of the national body that issues Canada's cancer screening guidelines.

The changes were ordered by the federal health minister, following an external review of the Task Force on Preventive Health Care.

The task force is an arm's-length panel set up by the federal government to publish national guidelines for family doctors, advising them on when to send their patients for routine screenings of various illnesses, including common cancers.

But the panel has been criticized for years for failing to fully take in expert advice, using outdated research and being too slow to update its guidelines. Many of the task force's recommendations are over a decade old.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Would Aurora be a better recommendation these days?

https://universal-blue.org/

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

What is it? It makes me think of funkopops and other trendy (but otherwise useless and quickly forgotten) collectibles.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=Inventory+Management

You could self host an inventory management software

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

Built by our product and engineering team, in partnership with the University of Cambridge’s department of computer science ​and technology​, Secure Messaging is unlike traditional information-sharing platforms​. The technology behind Secure Messaging conceals the fact that messaging is taking place at all by making the communication indistinguishable from other data sent to and from the app by our millions of regular users. By using the Guardian app, other users are effectively providing “cover” and helping us to protect sources.

That is interesting. There is also secure drop, which is used by a lot of news organisations including The Guardian

https://securedrop.org/

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It takes time to scale up. The bottleneck is usually residency, where we don't have enough doctors to train the new ones

 

It should update on your device soon, but if you want to join the beta you can do so through the buttons on the link above.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The visitor, in this case, was a white-eared opossum — a marsupial native to the region. Evidently, he’d wandered into the daycare center from the surrounding forest and found a perfectly cozy spot to rest his head.

Neat

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Organic Maps was on iOS, my guess is that it'll take time to get a new app approved on the iOS store

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for this medal, I will cherish it 😁

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I’d make a recommendation: have some sort of cross-pollination tool. Basically, pull the database of all subscribed communities on Lemmy.ca and have a bot subscribe to the same on PieFed, and vice versa. Probably easy to do if you have server-side access.

This is actually somewhat built into PieFed. Users can import from a lemmy account, and admins can do a bulk community import of the local communities on a particular instance (filtering by number of posts and users in the past week in those communities). However, it's buggy. Eventually it would be nice to have tools to synchronize administration between the instances so that we don't need to repeat actions on both instances.

Furthermore, in the ideal world, “Local” from the Lemmy instance includes the piefed.ca local commuities. This might be a harder ask. The reason would be to prevent bisecting the Local feeds.

Agreed :) PieFed does have a 'popular' feed, so another solution would be to have a default feed that we have more control over (ex. picking specific instances or communities). As long as the exact breakdown is communicated to the user, perhaps as a 'learn more' button in the existing "Create an account to tailor this feed to your interests.", I don't think people will mind the admins customizing it to fit the instance. We've discussed in the past whether it is better to have the default logged out view be 'local' or 'popular', and this might help with that problem too.

Finally, ideally there is a community migration tool, to cross between Lemmy and PieFed if a community wants to move from one side to the other

This actually exists for the Lemmy -> PieFed direction! @blaze posted some information about it here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/16976004

It could be better, since right now while the PieFed instance does get a copy of all the posts, the Lemmy instance doesn't know about it. Hopefully the various platforms can coordinate some common solution.

Also happy cake day! 🥳

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Here is the feature list of grapheneOS. A big one for me is sandboxing apps and more control over permissions.

https://grapheneos.org/features

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Kaitlin Stockton's lawsuit claims her job was threatened after she took action to warn patients of ER delays

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45803716 | !linux@programming.dev

I appreciate how little fluff there is on this channel.

 

I appreciate how little fluff there is on this channel.

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