ParaSTART participant Nate preparing for a swim training session. Credit: ParaSTART program, University of Queensland A competitive swimming program developed by University of Queensland researchers for young people with severe cerebral palsy has reversed motor decline associated with the condition. Professor Sean Tweedy from UQ’s School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences and the Queensland …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A study that investigates patient perceptions and the perceived benefits and harms associated with the use of behavioral flags has been published in Academic Emergency MedicineThe study, titled “Patient perceptions of behavioral flags in the emergency department: A qualitative analysis” observed that little is known about how patients perceive behavioral flags …
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More people with lung cancer are living longer, but it remains America’s deadliest cancer, a new state-by-state report shows. “There is more work to do, but I am incredibly optimistic about the future of lung cancer care,” said Harold Wimmer, president and CEO of the American Lung Association (ALA), which documents improved survival rates and …
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Bed nets — up to now the prime weapon against malaria — may be much less effective against the urban mosquito. The spread of a mosquito in East Africa that thrives in urban areas and is immune to insecticide is fueling a surge in malaria that could reverse decades of progress against the disease, experts …
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Oxitec has created a so-called ‘friendly mosquito’, a genetically modified male. Tens of thousands of genetically modified mosquitoes are being released every week in Djibouti as the tiny Horn of Africa state experiments with a new weapon against an unprecedented malaria surge. East Africa faces a deadly new threat from the arrival of Anopheles stephensi, …
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Small molecule modulation of protein corona significantly enhances deep plasma proteome profiling. Credit: Mahmoudi Group Medical professionals have long known that the earlier a disease is detected, the higher the chance for a better patient outcome. Now, a multidisciplinary team of Michigan State University researchers, in collaboration with experts from Karolinska Institute and the University …
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A patient prepares to take the first of two combination pills, mifepristone, for a medication abortion during a visit to a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., Oct. 12, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File A state judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s overall ban on abortion and its first-in-the-nation explicit prohibition on the use of …
Credit: Anna Shvets from Pexels A paper titled “Deep Learning and Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Detection and Classification” published in Biology Methods and Protocols shows that scientists can train artificial intelligence (AI) models to distinguish brain tumors from healthy tissue. AI models can already find brain tumors in MRI images almost as well as …
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Kala Noel captured this image of the Wagar family welcoming their baby at a planned home birth. Credit: Melissa Cheyney, professor in the OSU College of Liberal Arts and a licensed midwife. In low-risk pregnancies, mothers and children are just as safe with a planned home birth as they are with a planned birth center …
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Overview of BiomedParse and BiomedParseData. Credit: Natural Methods (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41592-024-02499-w Artificial intelligence is making impressive strides in its ability to read medical images. In a recent test in Britain’s National Health Service, an AI tool looked at the mammograms of over 10,000 women and correctly identified which patients were found to have cancer. The …