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A multi-institutional Korean team of child and adolescent psychologists, behavioral scientists, ophthalmologists and biomedical systems informatics specialists has found that deep-learning-based AI systems can accurately diagnose children with autism. In their study, reported in the journal JAMA Network Open, the group created an autism-diagnosing tool using a learning-based AI system and tested it on human subjects.

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease whose main symptoms are redness, swelling, and itchy rashes. It is more common in people with a genetic predisposition. The manifestation of symptoms depends on interactions among the immune system, environmental factors, and gut microbiota.

Scientists studied the role of global genetic characterization of samples (or non-targeted metagenomics) using next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in diagnosing infections. The results of the study are published in the journal Lancet Microbe.

Researcher Dr. Daniel Drucker has much to be proud of, as the GLP-1-based diabetes drugs hailing from his early research are named the 2023 breakthrough of the year by the Science Magazine. Not only have millions of people with type 2 diabetes benefitted from GLP-1 agonists, but the drugs also produced wide-ranging health benefits beyond weight loss in two recent patient trials.

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A TASK force on illegal fuel vending has arrested 22 people and seized 10, 050 litres of illegal fuel worth K300 000 of in Lusaka.

A study published in Nature Human Behaviour examines the link between 414 early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in over 2.5 million individuals born in Finland and Sweden. The international research team was led by Aoxing Liu and senior authors Melinda Mills, Andrea Ganna.

Children with bilateral Wilms tumor have a tumor in each of their kidneys—a condition that strongly suggests an underlying genetic or epigenetic predisposition driving the disease. Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital gathered a large cohort of bilateral Wilms tumor samples and conducted analyses to assess which factors contribute to predisposition comprehensively.

A technology from the 19th century meets one from the 21st to better help doctors predict who’ll survive a heart surgery.

If you’re one of the 50 million Americans with asthma or allergies, 2024 is another year to redouble efforts to manage them.

How cancer spreads or metastasizes is a big question for cancer researchers and patients. Mayo Clinic researchers studying pancreatic cancer—the third deadliest form of cancer in the U.S.—recently made a discovery that advances knowledge of how metastasis unfolds. They identified a cell-signaling protein that drives pancreatic cancer cell growth that could be a potential therapeutic target.