STAT+: As AI grows in medical image analysis, concern about building trust with doctors grows too
In 2018, the researcher Pranav Rajpurkar was working on an algorithm that could find blood…
Year: 2022
‘Front of the line’: For Alzheimer’s patients in successful trial, a feeling of gratitude
When the news came out last month that an experimental Alzheimer’s therapy succeeded in a…
COVID-19 linked to increase in U.S. pregnancy-related deaths – PBS NewsHour
COVID-19 linked to increase in U.S. pregnancy-related deaths PBS NewsHour Read Original Article: COVID-19 linked to…
What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures – The Guardian
What a pregnancy actually looks like before 10 weeks – in pictures The Guardian Read Original…
Expert advisers urge FDA to pull pregnancy drug from market – The Washington Post
Expert advisers urge FDA to pull pregnancy drug from market The Washington Post Read Original Article:…
‘A Delicate Dance’ – a personal essay by anchor Courtney Gousman about her pregnancy journey – News 5 Cleveland WEWS
‘A Delicate Dance’ – a personal essay by anchor Courtney Gousman about her pregnancy journey News…
News in Brief 19 October 2022
WHO urges governments to get people moving Guterres highlights partnership between UN and India UNICEF…
NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of pillars of creation
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape — the iconic…
Third COVID-19 vaccine dose is highly effective in patients with cirrhosis
Results of a retrospective study of 26,000 patients show that receiving a third dose of…
Novel PET imaging agent detects earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease
A new highly selective PET imaging agent can detect the presence of overexpressed monoamine oxidase-B…
To be less sedentary, you may need a more active friend
A newly developed mathematical model incorporates the influence of social interactions on community exercise trends,…
Ostrich-like dinosaurs from Mississippi are among the world’s largest at over 800 kilograms
Ostrich-like dinosaurs called ornithomimosaurs grew to enormous sizes in ancient eastern North America, according to…
Tardigrades: Microscopic creatures’ amazing durability
Researchers discovered how a sugar called trehalose works with proteins to allow tardigrades to survive…
Deeper understanding of the icy depths
Scientists have uncovered new details of how ice forming below the ocean surface in Antarctica…
New tool reveals what happens in the brain when we learn
A team measured how levels of various proteins in brain cells change in response to…
Researchers identify a gene as a potential target in treatment-resistant brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme
Research led by doctors and scientists have identified a gene that may provide a therapeutic…
Weight change in early Parkinson’s may be tied to changes in thinking skills
People who gain or lose weight soon after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease may be…
New research rewrites the evolutionary story of gills
Well before evolving to help vertebrates breathe underwater, gills played an early and equally important…
Methane-eating ‘borgs’ have been assimilating earth’s microbes
In Star Trek, the Borg are a ruthless, hive-minded collective that assimilate other beings with…
Rights experts calls for urgent action to implement South Sudan peace deal
Progress on the 2018 peace agreement for South Sudan has been “extremely slow”, UN human…
The government should be honest with the public about its public spending choices
The government’s medium term fiscal plan on 31 October will determine the shape of public…
What will public spending cuts mean for the NHS and social care?
The longest serving health secretary is now the chancellor of the exchequer in search of…
Opinion: What the Makena vote means about accelerated approval, trust, and the FDA
On Wednesday, the FDA advisory committee that oversees obstetrics, reproductive, and urologic drugs voted 14-1…
Tigray conflict is a health crisis for 6 million people, and ‘the world is not paying attention’: Tedros
The Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged the international community and the media…
STAT+: Large insurer’s decision to cover some prescription digital therapies may be a milestone for app makers
A large commercial insurer’s decision to cover a controversial class of software-based treatments for psychiatric…
Opinion: To learn lessons from pandemics, don’t listen to big pharma
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the leaders of wealthy countries pledged to respond with “global…
The most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matter
Analyzing more than two decades’ worth of supernova explosions convincingly bolsters modern cosmological theories and…
Meet the first Neanderthal family
Researchers have managed to sequence multiple individuals from a remote Neanderthal community in Siberia. Among…
Physicists confirm hitch in proton structure
A new precision measurement of the proton’s electric polarizability has confirmed an unexplained bump in…
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FDA authorizes booster shot for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has authorized a booster shot for…
STAT+: FDA panel votes that a controversial premature birth medication should be withdrawn
After an extraordinary three-day hearing, an expert panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and…
Black Death may have influenced evolution of genes involved in immune responses, study finds
The phrase “Black Death mass burial site” tends to evoke images of haphazard piles of…
NHS England announces “data driven war rooms” to tackle winter pressures
Control centres that open 24 hours a day will be set up throughout the NHS…
Covid-19 and long covid highlight the need to tackle behavioural health challenges
Greenhalgh and colleagues’ Practice Pointer1 and the Opinion article from Long Covid SOS2 serve as…
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Long covid update for primary care should acknowledge functional symptoms
It must be a fraught task, writing about long covid. The list of symptoms is…
We need both quantitative and qualitative data to prove the value of health visiting
Wilkinson’s article highlights the challenges of proving the value of health visiting.1 This is partly…
Cholera vaccine shortage forces shift to one-dose regimen
A lack of global supply has prompted the international body which distributes oral cholera vaccines…
Beauty products with fluorinated ingredients may also contain PFAS, study reports
Smooth, foamy, water-proof. These characteristics are extremely desirable in beauty products, but manufacturers sometimes use…
No heart damage despite hypertension
An overactive enzyme that causes an inherited form of high blood pressure also appears to…
Large emissions from ship scrubbers
The Baltic Sea is considered one of the world’s most polluted seas. Now, new research…
Model calculates energetics of piercing fangs, claws and other biological weapons
Researchers have created a model that can calculate the energetics involved when one organism stabs…
New motorcycle lighting design could save lives
Motorcycle drivers are 27 times more likely to die in an accident than those in regular passenger…
Warming oceans likely to shrink the viable habitat of many marine animals — but not all
A new article adds a new chapter to the story of how some animals may…
STAT+: Pharmalittle: Merck KGaA probed by French court for misleading info; former Genentech scientists given prison terms over trade-secret theft
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it…
Dementia and ethnicity: five minutes with . . . Charles Marshall
“If you are black in east London, you are 43% more likely to develop dementia…
John Launer: When outpatient appointments are put on hold
I have a long term medical condition that requires regular hospital review. In theory this…
An eruption of dome-shaped, red papules
These are reactive capillary haemangiomas (RCHs) on the trunk of a man in his 40s…
David Oliver: We’re further than ever from solving the social care crisis
Thérèse Coffey, secretary of state for health and social care and deputy prime minister, has…
Comparative effectiveness of initial computed tomography and invasive coronary angiography in women and men with stable chest pain and suspected coronary artery disease: multicentre randomised trial
AbstractObjectiveTo assess the comparative effectiveness of computed tomography and invasive coronary angiography in women and…
How the US scrapp{-}{-}{-}{-}ing of Roe v Wade threatens the global medical abortion revolution
In 2021, a 20 year old woman in Hyderabad, India, discovered she was pregnant. A…