Health
US vaping illnesses top 1,000, death count is up to 18
The outbreak of U.S. vaping-related illnesses has surpassed 1,000 cases.
Oct 3, 2019
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News tagged with probability
Neuroscience
Neuroscientists investigate lotteries to study how the brain evaluates risk
People are faced with thousands of choices every day, some inane and some risky. Scientists know that the areas of the brain that evaluate risk are the same for each person, but what makes the value assigned to risk different ...
Sep 19, 2012
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Health
Vaping illnesses in US still rising, though at slower pace
The number of vaping illnesses in the U.S. is still rising, but at a slower pace.
Nov 14, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
If 1% of COVID-19 cases result in death, does that mean you have a 1% chance of dying? A mathematician explains
As of April 2023, about 1% of people who contracted COVID-19 ended up dying. Does that mean you have a 1% chance of dying from COVID-19?
Apr 19, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How a random sampling regimen could help detect COVID and highlight infection hotspots
For the detection of community transmission of COVID-19, New Zealand currently relies on contact tracing, testing of self-selected people with symptoms and those with permission to travel between different alert levels, and ...
Oct 15, 2021
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Health
Vaping-related illness sickens over 500 in US
More than 500 people have been sickened in an outbreak of vaping-related illness in the United States, health authorities said Thursday, as Los Angeles became the latest city to take steps to ban flavored e-cigarettes.
Sep 19, 2019
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Health
US vaping illness count jumps to 805, deaths rise to 12
Hundreds more Americans have been reported to have a vaping-related breathing illness, and the death toll has risen to 12, health officials said Thursday.
Sep 26, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New book explores how we make decisions when faced with uncertainty
For decades, statisticians, economists, philosophers and mathematicians have studied how to make decisions in the face of uncertainty, and typically their analyses have focused on how to use probability theory from mathematics ...
Oct 2, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Russian scientist finds a new way to predict cancer development
A scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) has proposed a model that can predict the number of key carcinogenic events for each cancer type based on the relationship between morbidity and age. ...
Sep 27, 2017
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Health
Older people in Africa have limited functional ability
The number of adults living into older age in sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly growing yet many older men and women will have an illness or disability that limits their ability to function, according to a study by researchers ...
May 7, 2013
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