Archive: 16/05/2018

New report suggests airborne viruses most likely cause of future pandemics

A new report generated by a team at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests we might be fearing the wrong types of viruses. Instead of worrying about Ebola or Zika, the report contends, we should be worrying ...

May 16, 2018 report

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Picking up where the sexual revolution left off: The orgasm gap

At the core of the 1960s sexual revolution was "female sexual empowerment." It fell short of this goal. Specifically, while the revolution made women having intercourse before marriage acceptable, it didn't lead women to ...

May 16, 2018

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Alcohol use before lung transplant increases time in hospital and on ventilator

Lung transplant patients who showed evidence of alcohol use before their transplants spent more time in the hospital and on the ventilator, according to a study by Loyola University Chicago and Loyola Medicine researchers.

May 16, 2018

Predicting what drives people to seek, stay in substance-use treatment

About 22 million Americans are substance dependent (illicit drugs and alcohol), which interferes with routine life and requires treatment. Yet, only 2.5 million of these Americans participate in treatment services. The severe ...

May 16, 2018

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Is it rational to trust your gut feelings?

Imagine the director of a big company announcing an important decision and justifying it with it being based on a gut feeling. This would be met with disbelief – surely important decisions have to be thought over carefully, ...

May 16, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence improves stroke and dementia diagnosis in commonest form of brain scan

Machine learning has detected one of the commonest causes of dementia and stroke, in the most widely used form of brain scan (CT), more accurately than current methods.

May 16, 2018