OpenAI is backed by Microsoft, which earlier this year said it would finance the research company with billions of dollars of financing. The company behind the ChatGPT app that churns out essays, poems or computing code on command released Tuesday a long-awaited update of its artificial intelligence (AI) technology that it said would be safer...
by Justin Jackson , Medical Xpress Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Medical student and researcher Faisal Elali of the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University and medical scribe and researcher Leena Rachid from the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center wanted to see if artificial intelligence could write a fabricated research paper and then...
by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore Credit: Megahed et al At the end of November 2022, the San Francisco-based company OpenAI launched its prototype of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot that can answer a wide range of questions in short periods of time. Since then, users worldwide have been testing the chatbot and discussing...
by Jake Miller, Harvard Medical School Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study of more than 800,000 people has found that in the U.S., COVID “long haulers” were more likely to be older and female, with more chronic conditions than people in a comparison group who—after getting COVID—did not have diagnosed long COVID or any...
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY (WASHINGTON, March 8, 2023) – Sickle cell disease (SCD), a rare chronic, progressive, life-threatening, inherited blood disorder, often affects individuals with chronic pain that can be debilitating to their quality of life. Yet less than 4% of people living with SCD who experience chronic pain episodes have prescriptions for newer FDA-approved...
by Imperial College London Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood is associated with a higher risk of dying from respiratory disease as an adult, according to new research. A study, led by researchers from Imperial College London and published in The Lancet, has found that children who had had...
Marlene Busko March 03, 2023 Hydrochlorothiazide, which for decades has been a standard treatment to prevent the recurrence of calcium-containing kidney stones, did not lower the rate of stone recurrence in the NOSTONE randomized controlled trial. The rate of stone recurrence within 3 years was similar among 416 patients randomly assigned to receive hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg, 25 mg, or 50...
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION FOR PROBIOTICS AND PREBIOTICS Safe live microorganisms are found in a variety of foods we eat every day, from yogurt and other fermented foods, to raw fruits and vegetables. Despite the widespread idea that these mixtures of live microbes contribute to health, convincing evidence linking live dietary microbes to health benefits has...
by Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University (from left) Jessica Faulkner, PhD, Graduate Student Candee Barris (seated) and Eric Belin de Chantemele, PhD. Credit: AU photographer Michael Holahan. There is increasing evidence that females of all ethnicities and ages are more salt sensitive than males, and that this propensity to hold onto more salt,...
by American College of Cardiology Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Making a connection between the flu and the risk of subsequent heart problems significantly increased flu vaccination rates among older Danish adults, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s Annual Scientific Session Together With the World Congress of Cardiology. A reminder message...
