Although many pandemics have occurred throughout human history, digital technology enables the development of new tools for dealing with these events. But now, researchers from Japan have found that some of these systems ...
May 6, 2022
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A group of researchers led by Elke Rundensteiner has developed a highly effective technology that screens voice recordings for signs that a speaker is depressed, an important advance that could alert physicians and other ...
Apr 26, 2022
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic governments, corporations and private companies, as well as not-for-profit organizations have tried to support public health in many different ways. A new report in the International Journal ...
Sep 17, 2021
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Access to the Internet is essential for economic development, education, global communications, and countless other applications. For all its benefits, however, the Internet has a darker side. It has emerged as a conduit ...
Dec 21, 2020
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The human brain has about 100 billion neurons, linked in intricate ways, that the Spanish neuroanatomist Ramón y Cajal compared to "the impenetrable jungles where many investigators have lost themselves."
Sep 2, 2020
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As cholera claimed hundreds of thousands of lives during the 1846–1860 pandemic, John Snow was the first person to figure out how the deadly disease was spreading. By plotting the locations of deaths in London's Broad Street, ...
Aug 11, 2020
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One of the hallmarks of obsessive-compulsive disorder is contamination fears and excessive hand-washing. Years ago, a patient with severe OCD came to my office wearing gloves and a mask and refused to sit on any of the "contaminated" ...
Jun 16, 2020
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As more and more parents buy into the belief that vaccines cause autism and refuse to vaccinate their children, previously eradicated diseases are making their way back into society. These beliefs are part of "post-truth" ...
Dec 4, 2018
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Penn State researcher Reuben Kraft specializes in constructing computer models of the human brain that may help to diagnose, monitor and give insight on brain injuries by the creation and storage of what he has deemed the ...
Sep 14, 2018
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Researchers at the University of Adelaide have successfully trialed a new technique that could aid the process of choosing the "best" embryo for implantation, helping to boost the chances of pregnancy success from the very ...
Aug 25, 2016
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