A team of AI researchers at Google Research, working with a pair of colleagues from the Center of Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, has developed a machine learning system aimed at diagnosing lung diseases based on the ...
Indigenous communities in northern Quebec face significant hurdles to health care access. The Nunavik region is remote, with limited transportation options and extreme weather conditions. As a result, its population faces ...
Mar 25, 2024
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The World Health Organization's 194 member states have spent two years working towards a new international accord on pandemic preparedness and response.
Mar 25, 2024
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Four years after hospitals in New York City overflowed with COVID-19 patients, emergency physician Sonya Stokes remains shaken by how unprepared and misguided the American health system was.
Mar 21, 2024
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While many people maintain positive emotional well-being as they age, around half of older Australians living in residential aged care have significant levels of depression. Symptoms such as low mood, lack of interest or ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Nearly all farm workers who participated in a recent study in Florida were dehydrated at the end of their shifts, and more than half were still dehydrated the following morning.
Mar 19, 2024
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A website to support people living with long COVID is launched today, on Long COVID Awareness Day (March 15), by a research team led by a Southampton professor with first-hand experience of the condition.
Mar 15, 2024
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The end of the 20th century was a particularly grim period for Finland. Suicide rates were among the highest in the world, peaking in 1990 with over 30 deaths per 100,000 citizens, compared with a European average of ten ...
Mar 14, 2024
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Sedentary behavior can result in chronic health conditions such as obesity and heart diseases, bad news for the millions of office workers who are forced to sit behind their desks every day.
Mar 14, 2024
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In late January, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith unveiled policies on gender-affirming care and parental rights. These policies want to change access to medical treatments, participation in athletics, and whether transgender ...
Mar 14, 2024
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