AI performed well in conducting preliminary readings of heart ultrasounds. Artificial intelligence is better than humans at assessing heart ultrasounds, the main test of overall cardiac health, the most rigorous trial yet conducted on the subject found on Wednesday. While previous research has illustrated the potential power of AI models for reading medical scans, the...
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Therapy for rare bone disorder shows promise in clinical trial
by National Institutes of Health Bone scans of a patient before (left) and after (right) a six-month denosumab treatment show reduced turnover within fibrous dysplasia lesions (dark-colored patches). Credit: Alison Boyce, NIDCR A clinical trial at the National Institutes of Health found that a medication, denosumab, significantly reduced abnormal bone turnover in adults with fibrous...
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US steps up race for Alzheimer’s cure: NIH to launch $300m research database that tracks medical records of up to 90% of Americans
By MANSUR SHAHEEN DEPUTY HEALTH EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM UPDATED: 12:16 EDT, 3 April 2023 America’s leading medical research agency is launching a largest-of-its-kind $300 million database with hopes of learning more about Alzheimer’s. The National Institute of Aging (NIA), an arm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), hopes to launch the initiative as early as April...
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4 Strategies for Writing Your Urgent Essays
Urgent essays are the ones which have to get answered as fast as possible. They usually have a thesis statement with the main idea being to ignite an argument or spark a reader’s creativity and thought. It does not matter what the subject is as long as it is something that needs to be replied....
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Detecting novel systemic biomarkers in external eye photos
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2023 Posted by Boris Babenko, Software Engineer, and Akib Uddin, Product Manager, Google Research Last year we presented results demonstrating that a deep learning system (DLS) can be trained to analyze external eye photos and predict a person’s diabetic retinal disease status and elevated glycated hemoglobin (or HbA1c, a biomarker that indicates the three-month average level of blood...
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Magnesium-Rich Diet Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
Batya Swift Yasgur, MA, LSW March 31, 2023 A magnesium-rich diet has been linked to better brain health, an outcome that may help lower dementia risk, new research suggests. Investigators studied over 6000 cognitively healthy individuals, aged 40-73, and found that those who consumed more than 550 mg of magnesium daily had a brain age approximately 1...
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New shape-shifting antibiotics could fight deadly infections
by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory The chemical structure of the new antibiotic was designed by Moses and synthetically assembled by his lab. Dr. Thomas Fallon, Moses’ collaborator at the University of Newcastle, Australia, provided the shape-shifting bullvalene core. Moses says one commenter called the study “probably the ‘coolest’ and most complex natural product derivative paper I’ve...
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Spread of COVID-19 in households is linked to virus on hands and surfaces, say researchers
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON IMAGE: THIS INFOGRAPHIC SHOWS SARS-COV-2 HOUSEHOLD TRANSMISSION PATHWAYS WITH ADJUSTED RELATIVE RISKS. CREDIT: IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON PRESS RELEASE Under STRICT EMBARGO until: Thursday 6 April 2023 23:30 UK TIME / 19:30 ET Peer-reviewed / Observational study / People Spread of COVID-19 in households is linked to virus on hands...
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What to know about chocolate and lupus
Chocolate and cocoa products may help reduce inflammation, which may benefit people with autoimmune conditions such as lupus. However, there is no conclusive evidence that chocolate can reduce lupus symptoms. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can affect different parts of the body. With an autoimmune disease, the immune system cannot tell the difference between healthy tissues and pathogens. It...
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Why are animal-to-human diseases on the rise?
Graphic showing which animals host the most zoonotic viruses that have also been found in humans. From COVID-19 to monkey pox, Mers, Ebola, avian flu, Zika and HIV, diseases transmitted from animals to humans have multiplied in recent years, raising fears of new pandemics. What’s a zoonosis? A zoonosis (plural zoonoses) is a disease or infection transmitted...