Nele Albers of Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) uses AI coaches to help smokers quit smoking and vaping for her doctoral dissertation. She has developed an AI coach that uses psychologically informed reinforcement learning (RL), a form of machine learning in which a model learns through rewards, similar to how humans learn behaviors. Albers based her research on insights from behavior change theories and data from three large-scale studies with more than 500 participants each.
A new outbreak of measles has taken hold in Texas beginning at the end of January, when two cases were diagnosed in Harris County. The cases were the first in that state since 2023. Now, a little more than a month later, the number of measles cases has increased exponentially to 124, as of Tuesday.
Average people are right to be worried about PFAS “forever chemicals” being found in the food and water supply, an internationally renowned leader in children’s environmental health says.
Specialists from the Digestive System Department at Hospital Germans Trias have conducted and published a unique study that represents a significant improvement in the monitoring and treatment of patients who have undergone surgery due to one of the main inflammatory bowel diseases: Crohn’s disease.
Universitätsmedizin Berlin has reduced the annual CO2 emissions originating from gases used for anesthesia by over 80% since 2018. This reduction in carbon emissions was achieved by using climate-friendly anesthetics in the operating room. As a study published in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia demonstrates, education—and in particular, fundamental decisions—were the keys to success.
Measles is rarely seen in the United States, but Americans are growing more concerned about the preventable virus as cases continue to rise in rural West Texas.
A new study published Thursday by researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) highlights the powerful impact of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, first approved in 2006, in preventing precancerous lesions detected through cervical screening.
Scientists at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified an innovative combination of treatment strategies that work collaboratively to effectively kill acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells, a frequently incurable form of cancer.
Bacteremia, or blood poisoning, occurs when bacteria overcome the body’s immune defenses. Bacteremia can worsen into sepsis, a condition that accounts for more than 1 in 3 hospital deaths per year. Yet people are routinely exposed to and fight off bacteria from the environment without this deadly series of events occurring.
A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that patients who need treatment for neurological and mental health disorders would favor non-invasive neuromodulation interventions over current interventions such as pharmaceutical drugs.