Archive: 06/03/2019

Cancer death rate higher for patients with mental health history

Cancer patients who have been hospitalised for mental health problems prior to their cancer diagnosis were 73% more likely to die from their cancer compared to those who had never had psychiatric help, according to new research ...

Mar 6, 2019

People track when talkers say 'uh' to predict what comes next

Spontaneous conversation is riddled with disfluencies such as pauses and 'uhm's: On average, people produce 6 disfluencies every 100 words. But disfluencies do not occur randomly. Instead, 'uh' typically occurs before 'hard-to-name' ...

Mar 6, 2019

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Overcoming cardiovascular disease with a magnetically-steerable guidewire microrobot

A DGIST research team has developed a microrobot that can accurately reach the location of cardiovascular problems such as chronic total occlusion by moving and steering toward a desired direction inside blood vessels. This ...

Mar 6, 2019

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Researchers discover mechanism by which bacteria attack white blood cells

A research team led by Prof. Dr. Winfried Römer and Dr. Elias Hobeika from the University of Freiburg and the University Medical Center in Ulm has discovered a mechanism by which bacteria activate white blood cells and attack ...

Mar 6, 2019

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AI study of risk factors in type 1 diabetes

In combination with conventional statistical methods, artificial intelligence (AI) has now been used in a study of risk factors in type 1 diabetes. The objective was to identify the most important indicators of elevated risk ...

Mar 6, 2019