Archive: 27/07/2020

Artificial intelligence identifies prostate cancer with near-perfect accuracy

A study published today in The Lancet Digital Health by UPMC and University of Pittsburgh researchers demonstrates the highest accuracy to date in recognizing and characterizing prostate cancer using an artificial intelligence ...

Jul 27, 2020

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Trial finds drug safe and effective in treating hepatitis C during pregnancy

Critics of the new recommendation to screen all pregnant women for hepatitis C—a lifelong infection that attacks the liver—argue that it's wasteful to test for a disease among a population that can't be treated, but results ...

Jul 27, 2020

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Women smokers four times as likely as non-smokers to harbour brain aneurysm

Women smokers are four times as likely as their non-smoking peers to harbour an unruptured aneurysm—a weakened bulging artery—in the brain, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

Jul 27, 2020

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Concussion linked to heightened risk of dementia and Parkinson's disease

Concussion is linked to a heightened risk of subsequent hyperactivity disorder, dementia, and Parkinson's disease, as well as mood and anxiety disorders among women in particular, finds research published online in the journal ...

Jul 27, 2020

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Global virus deaths pass 650,000 as new surges prompt fresh curbs

Officials around the world reintroduced a raft of restrictions Monday—from beach closures to quarantine measures—to try to tamp down coronavirus hotspots as the official global death toll passed 650,000.

Jul 27, 2020

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Eleven states with surging COVID-19 cases at risk for shortages of ICU doctors

A hospital workforce estimator developed by the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity (Mullan Institute) at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) ...

Jul 27, 2020

Remote, real-time monitoring of post-operative lung transplant patients significantly decreases hospital stays

For many with end-stage lung disease, lung transplantation has become a viable option to extend lives and improve the quality of life.

Jul 27, 2020

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A new way to target cancers using 'synthetic lethality'

With advances in genome sequencing, cancer treatments have increasingly sought to leverage the idea of "synthetic lethality," exploiting cancer-specific genetic defects to identify targets that are uniquely essential to the ...

Jul 27, 2020

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Invisible barriers cut down on cheating

You know those cardboard partitions that sometimes separate kids taking a test? The ones meant to prevent cheating? According to a new study by an international team of researchers, a see-through partition does the trick, ...

Jul 27, 2020

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COVID-19 'super spreaders' quickly fill room with virus, but masks help

(HealthDay)—Face masks can help prevent the spread of COVID-19 among folks trapped in a room with an infected "super spreader," a new Swiss study claims.

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