BBC science correspondent has heart age assessed by AI
BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh has the age of his heart assessed by artificial intelligence. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - August 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pig kidney transplant in brain-dead man marks advance, NYU surgeons say
A genetically altered pig kidney has functioned for 32 days in a brain-dead man. His heart is still beating, and he is breathing with the aid of a respirator. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lenny Bernstein Source Type: news
A Pig ’ s Kidney Has Been Working in a Human Body for a Month, a Medical Milestone
(NEW YORK) — Surgeons transplanted a pig’s kidney into a brain-dead man and for over a month it’s worked normally — a critical step toward an operation the New York team hopes to eventually try in living patients.
Scientists around the country are racing to learn how to use animal organs to save human lives, and bodies donated for research offer a remarkable rehearsal.
The latest experiment announced Wednesday by NYU Langone Health marks the longest a pig kidney has functioned in a person, albeit a deceased one — and it’s not over. Researchers are set to track the ki...
Source: TIME: Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lauren Neergard / Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized medicine Source Type: news
Pig kidney transplant in brain dead man marks advance, NYU surgeons say
A genetically altered pig kidney has functioned for 32 days in a man declared neurologically dead. His heart is still beating, and he is breathing with the aid of a respirator. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lenny Bernstein Source Type: news
News at a glance: A win for obesity drugs, NIH unionization roadblocks, and Mexican fireflies under threat
CONSERVATION
Researchers raise alarm over threat to Mexican fireflies
Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week delivered a letter to the Mexican government requesting it regulate tourism centered on the threatened firefly species
Photinus palaciosi
. Endemic to Mexico’s Tlaxcala forests,
P. palaciosi
is one of the few species that glow in synchrony, offering an annual spectacle that attracts thousands of visitors during summer mating season. The letter describes how littering, artificial light, and noise interfere with the insects’ ...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 10, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Red State Loses Key Cardiologist; Semaglutide Reduces CVD Risk; Pregnancy OK in HCM
(MedPage Today) -- The director of the only pediatric heart transplant program in Louisiana, a married gay man, says he is relocating to New York for a better LGBTQ+ environment. (Advocate)
Once-weekly semaglutide 2.4 mg (Wegovy) reduced major... (Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular)
Source: MedPage Today Cardiovascular - August 8, 2023 Category: Cardiology Source Type: news
Doctors have long considered the thymus expendable. But could removing it be fatal?
The thymus, a butterfly-shaped organ that sits between our collarbones, has never seemed like a particularly useful appendage—at least in adults. During early childhood, it provides a place for T cells (the T stands for thymus) to mature into immune cells that attack invaders. But during adolescence the organ begins to shrink and mostly stops producing these cells. By adulthood, it’s assumed to be so useless that cardiac surgeons will occasionally remove it just to get easier access to the heart.
But researchers have recently started to question that assumption, and a study published today in
The New England...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 2, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
From smart stethoscopes to predicting bed demand: how AI can support healthcare
Collection of studies show five areas where AI tools show promise – and even outperform humansAI use in breast cancer screening as good as two radiologists, study findsA new collection of studies released by the UK ’s National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) demonstrates the potential usefulness of artificial intelligence in healthcare.A separate trial found that AI in breast cancer screening is safe and can almost halve the workload of radiologists.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 2, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Gregory Health editor Tags: Artificial intelligence (AI) Health Breast cancer Medical research Heart disease UK news Source Type: news
New artificial intelligence program could help treat hypertension
For the nearly half of Americans with hypertension, it ' s a potential death sentence; it increases the risk of stroke and chronic heart failure. While it ' s relatively easy to prevent or moderate if caught early — eat well, exercise more, consume less… (Source: NSF News)
Source: NSF News - August 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: NSF Source Type: news
Edwards Lifesciences Shares Fall as Heart-Valve Growth Slows Edwards Lifesciences Shares Fall as Heart-Valve Growth Slows
Edwards Lifesciences has slightly raised its annual forecasts for sales and profit, but slower-than-expected revenue growth in the company ' s artificial heart valves dragged its shares down.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - July 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Is West Nile Virus on Your Radar? It Should Be.
(MedPage Today) -- Not long ago, a colleague shared a tragic story about a man with a failing heart. The good news? He received a transplant and did well. But soon after, things went terribly wrong.
After returning home from the hospital, he suffered... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - July 20, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Report: Apple Developing Generative AI Tools
Apple is reportedly working on artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The tech giant has not announced a strategy for releasing the technology to consumers, but its development of large language models (LLMs) — the AI-based systems at the heart of new services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s…#apple #openai #google #timcook #karenwebster #appstore #gpt (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Does Aspartame Cause Cancer or Is It Safe to Consume? What to Know About the Sweetener
The World Health Organization’s cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — as a “possible” cause of cancer, while a separate expert group looking at the same evidence said it still considers the sugar substitute safe in limited quantities.
The differing results of the coordinated reviews were released early Friday. One came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a special branch of the WHO. The other report was from an expert panel selected by WHO and another U.N. group, the Food and Agriculture Organization.
The Lyon, Franc...
Source: TIME: Health - July 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maria Cheng and Jonel Aleccia / AP Tags: Uncategorized Diet & Nutrition wire Source Type: news
Does Aspartame Cause Cancer or Is It Safe to Consume? The Latest Evidence About the Artificial Sweetener
The World Health Organization’s cancer agency has deemed the sweetener aspartame — found in diet soda and countless other foods — as a “possible” cause of cancer, while a separate expert group looking at the same evidence said it still considers the sugar substitute safe in limited quantities.
The differing results of the coordinated reviews were released early Friday. One came from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a special branch of the WHO. The other report was from an expert panel selected by WHO and another U.N. group, the Food and Agriculture Organization.
The Lyon, Franc...
Source: TIME: Health - July 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maria Cheng and Jonel Aleccia / AP Tags: Uncategorized Diet & Nutrition wire Source Type: news
Opinion: At the heart of artificial intelligence is racism and colonialism that we must excise
Marcel O’Gorman is a University Research Chair and director of the Critical Media Lab at the University of Waterloo. A student in my fourth-year English class recently prompted the artificial-intelligence-powered DALL-E 2 to generate a “1960s magazine ad for a hair clipper where a white man is…#criticalmedialab #universityofwaterloo #ruhabenjamin #newjimcode #sylviawynter #naomiklein #amazon #google #communication #nickcouldry (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
