While artificial intelligence continues to transform health care, the tech has an Achilles heel: training AI systems to perform specific tasks requires a great deal of annotated data that engineers sometimes just don't have ...
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A team of researchers at Cardiff University, working with a colleague at the University of Bristol, has found that the human brain responds to pressure in ways similar to gelatin and that it can break apart more easily than ...
For the first time, physicists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE), biologists and physicians demonstrated the synergistic effect of cold atmospheric plasma - a partly ionized gas - and chemo ...
May 23, 2013
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When a surgeon accidentally leaves a surgical tool inside a patient's body after a procedure, the harm can be severe. The patient can suffer from life-threatening infections, organ damage, and an additional surgery to remove ...
Apr 11, 2024
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A research group led by Prof. Jia Fucang from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a multi-task fine-grained spatiotemporal model that can effectively identify ...
Sep 27, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on the mental health of health care workers across the world. Most reported increased levels of stress and anxiety early in the pandemic from constant exposure to patient deaths and later ...
Jun 13, 2023
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For the first time worldwide, at the University of Gothenburg, a child has been born following a uterus transplantation achieved solely by robot-assisted surgery on both donor and recipient.
May 26, 2023
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In April 2021, during the Leaders Summit on Climate, President Biden announced his goal to drastically reduce the United States' greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
May 6, 2022
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Disinfectants and surgical smoke—the gaseous by-product produced by heat-generating surgical instruments—are among the hazardous chemicals to which physicians, nurses, and other hospital staff are exposed in operating ...
Oct 18, 2021
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When a drain tube, vascular stent or surgical pack is wrongly left in a person's body following surgery or during post-operative care, one in six incidents is not detected for at least six-months.
May 5, 2020
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