A new coronavirus variant, BA.2.86, is raising concern with public health experts, but it's too early to know if this one is any more transmissible than current strains of the virus—or if it will even stick around.
Sep 4, 2023
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An international group of doctors and public health experts have joined the clamor for a moratorium on AI research until the development and use of the technology are properly regulated.
May 9, 2023
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Researchers at Aalto University, the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center have studied how a completely new treatment option affects the immune system in patients with advanced ...
Mar 2, 2023
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With the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology, it is critical to minimize bias within machine learning systems before implementing their use in real-world clinical scenarios, according to a special ...
Aug 24, 2022
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As a physicist, I am trained to look for patterns in data. For example, the motion of the tiniest particles may seem random, but it contains patterns and symmetries.
May 23, 2022
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Portugal fears a fourth wave of the coronavirus pandemic may take hold with the highly contagious Delta variant now accounting for more than 60 percent of new cases in the capital.
Jun 22, 2021
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With new, more infectious variants of COVID-19 detected around the world, and at New Zealand's border, the risk of further level 3 or 4 lockdowns is increased if those viruses get into the community.
Jan 22, 2021
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The coronavirus outbreak offered the public a crash course in statistics, with terms like doubling time, logarithmic scales, R factor, rolling averages, and excess mortality now on everyone's tongue. However, simply having ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Tier 1 restrictions in England have had "little impact" on COVID-19 transmission according to new research from the University of East Anglia.
Nov 30, 2020
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More people than usual died from strokes during Germany's spring coronavirus lockdown, a study by health insurer AOK showed Wednesday, blaming fears about going to hospital.
Nov 25, 2020
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