Story by Erin Marie • Yesterday 6:00 AM Using a long, pliable tube equipped with a small camera at the end, a doctor performs a colonoscopy by inserting the instrument into the patient’s rectum in order to thoroughly examine the colon for abnormalities (via Mayo Clinic). In an exclusive interview, Health Digest spoke with Dr. Joseph J. Jennings, gastroenterologist...
BY ZEE KRSTIC PUBLISHED: MAR 11, 2023 Federal health agents are warning Americans that annual cases of norovirus have recently been on a surge here in the United States, per data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Highly viral, norovirus can trigger painful bouts of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea in those who touch contaminated surfaces or share direct contact with...
By SHERYL BARRINGER, THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY MARCH 13, 2023 A human fungal zombie from the TV show ‘The Last of Us.’ Credit: Liane Hentscher/HBO Pancakes won’t turn you into a zombie as in HBO’s ‘The Last of Us,’ but fungi in flour have been making people sick for a long time. In the HBO series “The...
Linda Geddes Mon 13 Mar 2023 03.00 EDT Tonight, and almost every night, something amazing will happen inside your brain. As you turn off the light switch and fall asleep, you will be switching on the neurological equivalent of a dishwasher deep-clean cycle. First, the activity of billions of brain cells will begin to synchronise,...
Could an innovative ultrasound device help treat hypertension? Image credit: Fabian Strauch/picture alliance via Getty Images. A new meta-analysis of existing studies investigating a unique form of blood pressure control reports encouraging results. It describes a procedure that “mutes” overactive kidney nerves, a symptom often found in middle-aged people with hypertension. The procedure lowered the...
Sue Hughes March 07, 2023 Consumption of a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, dubbed a “keto-like” diet, was associated with an increase in LDL levels and a twofold increase in the risk for future cardiovascular events, in a new observational study. “To our knowledge this is the first study to demonstrate an association between a carbohydrate-restricted dietary platform and...
Three charts from the world of research, selected by Nature editors. Accelerating artificial intelligence Commercial firms are rolling out ever-larger artificial-intelligence models — each costing millions of dollars to train and run. They hope to develop systems with capabilities greater than the large language models (LLMs) underlying chatbots such as ChatGPT. LLMs are giant networks of computing units (also...
COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL Until recently it has been a challenge to make convincing fake social media profiles at scale because images could be traced back to their source, and the text often didn’t sound human-like. Today with rapid advances in artificial intelligence it is increasingly becoming difficult to tell the difference. Researchers from Copenhagen Business...
Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios Google showed off an array of new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven health care tools on Tuesday, Jennifer A. Kingson reports, from a souped-up chatbot that can shed light on your medical symptoms to enhanced search features that tell you if a doctor takes Medicaid.Why it matters: There’s an arms race among big tech companies to infuse their...
Screenshot: The Age of AI/YouTubeFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his Schmidt Ventures are out with an animated video — made with the help of AI, including a cartoon rendition of Dr. Henry Kissinger — showing how artificial intelligence is “the most powerful foundational technology ever to have existed.”Why it matters: AI will alter war, global relations — even our...
