BERLIN (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is still ironing out details of a policy by which national teams fly in additional medical staff for the Tokyo Olympics so as not to burden Japan which is struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. The IOC’s coordination commission chief John Coates said last week additional medical personnel would be part […]
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ALBANY, N.Y. — Vaccinated kids aged 12 to 17 will have a chance to win a full ride to public universities and colleges in New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. The governor said the state will raffle off 50 scholarships, which would cover four years of tuition, room and board, books and supplies. New York will hold weekly drawings […]
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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has recommended clinicians counsel their adolescent and adult pregnant patients in primary care settings to use interventions to limit excess gestational weight gain. Counseling pregnant persons on gestational weight gain (GWG) carries a B recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), meaning there is “moderate certainty that behavioral counseling interventions aimed at […]
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Photo: Simerse Today there is a bottleneck in the development of artificial intelligence and machine learning – real-world data collection. AI and machine learning models require large datasets to become proficient at a task. But preparing these datasets for model training is both costly and labor intensive. It is a conundrum, and the lack of large, accurately labeled datasets for […]
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There is growing evidence that house design can decrease the force of malaria infection. The world’s most deadly assassin is Africa’s malaria mosquito: Anopheles gambiae. In 2019, the World Health Organisation estimated that malaria killed 386,000 people in sub-Saharan Africa, mainly children. Whilst we think of the home as a sanctuary, in Africa, around 80% of the malaria bites occur […]
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The number of patients aged over 50 reporting possible cancer symptoms to their GPs fell during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study at the University of Bristol published in BMJ Open today [25 May] has found. The reduction in reporting was most pronounced for common symptoms, which rarely indicate cancer. It was also significant for ‘alarm’ symptoms, […]
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When San Francisco voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure banning the sale of flavored tobacco products in 2018, public health advocates celebrated. After all, tobacco use poses a significant threat to public health and health equity, and flavors are particularly attractive to youth. But according to a new study from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), that law may […]
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Late last year, Janet Yetenekian was one of the thousands of people in Southern California whose case of covid-19 was serious enough to send her to the hospital. But Yetenekian's recovery was not typical: She received hospital-level care in her own home in Glendale. "It was even better than the hospital," Yetenekian said, laughing. "They were constantly reaching out — […]
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Do you fancy splitting your time between working from home and in the office as lockdown eases? ‘Hybrid working’ could be for you. Over the last year or so, there’s been a lot of chat about what the ‘future of work’ might look like. The coronavirus pandemic has forced businesses and organisations across a wide range of industries to reconsider […]
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