Cart is empty “Ancestral” diets like the paleo diet are hugely popular in Australia, but experts from UNSW Sydney and the Australian Museum have questions.
Helping immigrants make primary care appointments reduces ER visits and costs
Encouraging immigrants to visit primary care doctors creates a striking decline in costly emergency room use, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT economist.
Farmers won’t tolerate late delivery of inputs – EFP
By NATION REPORTER
ECONOMIC Front Party (EFP) chairperson for Information and Media, Fewdays Nsensema late delivery of inputs to farmers will not be tolerated this season.
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Assessing unintended consequences in AI-based neurosurgical training
Virtual reality simulators can help learners improve their technical skills faster and with no risk to patients. In the field of neurosurgery, they allow medical students to practice complex operations before using a scalpel on a real patient. When combined with artificial intelligence, these tutoring systems can offer tailored feedback like a human instructor, identifying areas where the students need to improve and making suggestions on how to achieve expert performance.
Study suggests poor oral health could lessen survival from head and neck cancer
An international study has revealed strong associations between oral health and survival among people diagnosed with head and neck cancer. Specifically, better oral health, as evidenced by the number of natural teeth and dental visits prior to the time of diagnosis, was associated with increased survival. Importantly, those who had more frequent dental visits were more likely to have their cancer diagnosed at an earlier, and less deadly, stage of the disease than those who had few or no dental visits.
Study finds two antibiotics for children with sinusitis equally effective, but one has fewer side effects
In a new study published in JAMA and led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital has found that patients prescribed amoxicillin-clavulanate had higher rates of gastrointestinal symptoms and yeast infections than those prescribed amoxicillin.
Women with gene mutation give new insight into blood clot risk
New research from Queen Mary University of London, published in iScience, shows an increased risk of blood clots in women who have any combination of a particular gene mutation, estrogen use, or common medical conditions—specifically: obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and kidney disease.
Deep learning reveals valuable clues about kidney cancer in pathology slides
A team of Dana-Farber researchers has identified a potential new way to assess clinically valuable features of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), a form of kidney cancer, using image processing with deep learning. Their AI-based assessment tool evaluates two-dimensional pictures of a tumor sample on a pathology slide and identifies previously underappreciated features, such as tumor microheterogeneity, that could help predict whether a tumor will respond to immunotherapy.
Cholesterol and inflammation demonstrate Alzheimer’s link
High cholesterol and chronic inflammation are suspected to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease; however, these two factors remain poorly understood.
Biopsy-free diagnosis of celiac disease in adults shows promising results
Researchers from the University of Salerno, Italy, have found that a simple blood test for tTG-IgA concentrations could be used as a diagnostic threshold in predicting duodenal villous atrophy, a hallmark of celiac disease.