As the second-largest Ebola epidemic in history spreads into Uganda, a modelling study has suggested that most Ebola outbreaks escape detection by doctors Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2206533-more-than-half-of-all-ebola-outbreaks-are-going-undetected/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tag: Doctors
An X-Ray Showing 100 Bubble Tea Pearls in a Teen’s Abdomen Has Doctors Very Confused
Although bubble tea pearls could indeed cause constipation, it’s unclear how they could show up on a CT scan, experts say. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65705-bubble-tea-abdomen-constipation.html
Researchers Use Lasers To Detect and Destroy Tumor Cells In Melanoma Patients
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: Tumor cells that spread cancer via the bloodstream face a new foe: a laser beam, shined from outside the skin, that finds and kills these metastatic little demons on the spot. In a study published today in Science Translational Medicine, researchers revealed that their system accurately detected these cells in 27 out…
Eric S. Raymond Survives New Medical Problems
For decades Eric S. Raymond has been one of the open source movement’s staunchest supporters. He co-founded the Open Source Initiative, and was the author of the influential book The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary . Tuesday the 61-year-old super-geek posted a dramatic story to his blog:
Today I had to — literally…
Giving fruit flies your cancer’s mutations could guide your treatment
Flies, fish and mice are being developed into “cancer avatars” that carry the unique traits of a person’s cancer and help doctors choose which drugs to use Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2204384-giving-fruit-flies-your-cancers-mutations-could-guide-your-treatment/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Specially created animal ‘cancer avatars’ could personalise treatments
Flies, fish and mice are being developed into “cancer avatars” that carry the unique traits of a person’s cancer and help doctors choose which drugs to use Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2204384-specially-created-animal-cancer-avatars-could-personalise-treatments/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
How Willem Einthoven gave doctors a window on the heart
Dutch physiologist Willem Einthoven invented the electrocardiogram (ECG), a way to record the heart’s electrical activity with electrodes on the skin Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2203921-how-willem-einthoven-gave-doctors-a-window-on-the-heart/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Can Touching Fentanyl Really Kill You?
Myths about mere exposure to the drug don’t match with what doctors know about opioid toxicity. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65502-can-touching-fentanyl-really-kill-you.html
Startup ‘ObEN’ Is Betting the Future On Personal AI Avatars
merbs shares an excerpt from a Gizmodo report: In January 2019, when China Central Television, the largest broadcast network in the most populous nation in the world, aired a special to celebrate the Lunar New Year, the hosts welcomed four life-sized “personal artificial intelligences” to share the stage with them. Called PAIs, they were three-dimensional holographic replicas of the presenters that…
Teach the World: Listening to the Learner
By Rupal Nayar On April 3rd, 2019, Thomas Friedman kicked off the 2019 Coursera Partners Conference quoting Dov Siedman: “When you press pause on a machine, it stops. But when you press pause on human beings they start — start to reflect, rethink assumptions, and reimagine a better path.” For the dynamic world of online […]
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