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In one case a woman was left badly shaken when the AI scribe's summary of her conversation wrongly said she had demyelination – serious nerve damage that can lead to multiple sclerosis. It was only when the patient, an…
Several years later, they will emerge as graduates, ready to enter the world of work. Or at least, that’s the theory. The reality is that many will leave university less prepared for the jobs market than they need to be…
Now analysis has produced a heartening caveat to that advice: if you do not overdo it, weekend lie-ins may be good for you, with an ideal benchmark of 1hr 27min extra in bed to protect against high blood pressure. Most…
As of late August, more than 17,000 people across the US have had cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection often traced to contaminated produce. But tens of millions of diarrhea cases occur in the US every year, caused by…
Cofnas, an American academic, was suspended from his postdoctoral research position at the Belgian institution earlier this month pending a "preliminary investigation" launched after Arday's death. Ghent did not name…
Legionnaires' disease is a serious pneumonia caused by a bacterium called legionella. It often comes from large air-conditioning systems, like those used in hotels, hospitals and high-rise buildings, because the cooling…
Those bans and restrictions have also meant that later abortion care access has grown over the past decade in a handful of haven states and cities. Patients are showing up "later and sicker" in need of reproductive…
The chemical, TBBPA, has been found in dust in US homes and in consumer goods at combined levels that independent research has found may present a danger to the public, and especially small children . The agency is…
She was living with her parents to save on rent and quickly feeling her passion for teaching dry up, even though it was her first job since graduation. "I was extremely burnt out," Marie said. "We had a teacher shortage…
The number of people living with dementia globally is forecast to nearly triple to 153 million by 2050. But experts believe almost half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed. Now research presented in Munich at…