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Health informatics

How does a person's ethnicity impact their risk of death?

In the U.K., disparities in mortality risk factors exist between ethnic groups, with differences in overall mortality, top causes of mortality and individual mortality risk factors, according to a new study published this ...

Health informatics

ChatGPT can (almost) pass the US Medical Licensing Exam

ChatGPT can score at or around the approximately 60% passing threshold for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), with responses that make coherent, internal sense and contain frequent insights, according to a ...

Medications

Βeta-blocker use associated with lower rates of violence

Reductions in violence are seen in individuals using Beta adrenergic-blocking agents (β-blockers) compared with periods that they are not taking the medication, finds a study published January 31 in the open-access journal ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Abnormal 12-hour cyclic gene activity found in schizophrenic brains

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, U.S. present the first evidence of 12-hour cycles of gene activity in the human brain. Published in the open access journal PLOS Biology on January 24, the study ...

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