They aimed to identify a small set of signals detectable during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy that could form the basis of a simple and inexpensive diagnostic test that can be used in low-, middle- and high-income countries. To estimate the accuracy of the machine learning models, the researchers first built the models with …
If you feel like everyone you know is getting sick, it’s because they are. The Bay Area is hit with a triple virus threat. Cases of COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus are increasing across the region and across the country, making it harder than ever to pinpoint what’s causing your dry cough or runny …
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Extract of “The real world of the university: what is higher education and what can it be?by Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman. Reprinted with permission from The MIT Press. Copyright 2022. With our research team, we spent five years visiting ten disparate campuses, conducting over two thousand semi-structured intensive interviews. On each campus, we interviewed …
CNN — A common treatment for some arthritis pain may actually make it worse, according to two new studies. “Knee osteoarthritis is one of the most chronic, degenerative and progressive conditions, with an estimated incidence of 800,000 patients each year in the United States alone,” said lead author of one of the studies, Dr. Upasana …
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Summary: 47% of patients with a mental health disorder receive a different diagnosis within the first ten years of the initial diagnosis. Source: University of Copenhagen “Let’s see how things go.” So psychiatrists often say to themselves after a patient has been diagnosed with the first disorder – not because the diagnosis is not correct, …
“Ungroup” has become a buzzword on the internet, but what does it mean and is it really common? A study published in the Psychiatric Research Journal suggests that this mental disconnect may be very common in people with depressive symptoms. Dissociation is a word used to describe mental detachment or separation. It’s a popular word …
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Comment this story Comment Fifteen years ago, Jack Schultz first noticed several of his fingers curling towards his palm. Schultz, 75, of Columbia Station, Ohio, a retired plastics company executive, was puzzled. “What is that?” he remembers asking his doctor. “And can you fix it?” The doctor knew what it was: Dupuytren’s disease (also known …
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