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Medical Xpress / Generative AI's benefits and risks at different stages of childhood development
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI), able to produce text, images and video on demand, has grown exponentially in recent years. While its applications for personal and professional use continue to expand, many ...
Tech Xplore / Will AI drones, robots and wearable sensors revolutionize workplace safety?
Around 60% of Canadian employees can expect their job to be transformed through artificial intelligence (AI). For many, AI will complement, rather than replace, their work. For some, it could prevent illness, injury or death.
Medical Xpress / What to know about lung cancer
It can be surprising to learn that lung cancer can develop in people who have never smoked. In fact, up to 20% of lung cancers occur in people without a history of smoking. While smoking remains the leading risk factor, other ...
Medical Xpress / No more weekly injections? How lettuce cells could deliver GLP-1 pills
Research led by Penn Dental's Henry Daniell investigates the use of a lettuce-based, plant-encapsulated delivery platform as a new oral delivery of two GLP-1 drugs previously approved by the FDA in injectable form.
Tech Xplore / Power outages cost US electricity customers billions
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have provided the first comprehensive analysis of the specific costs of power outages to local customers across the nation. It found that the average ...
Medical Xpress / Trauma patients recover faster when medical teams know each other well, new study finds
When a trauma patient enters the emergency department, their potential for survival often depends on what happens within the first minutes after their arrival. After studying trauma resuscitation teams at UPMC Presbyterian ...
Medical Xpress / Gaps in lung cancer treatment persist, study finds
In recent decades, lung cancer treatment has been transformed—new surgeries, new radiation techniques, and dramatically improved outcomes. But according to new research from Yale, published in JAMA Network Open, one thing ...
Medical Xpress / Councils in the UK face industry legal threats for campaigns warning against wood-burning stoves
As the UK government considers adding health warnings to new wood-burning stoves, as part of a public consultation on solid fuel burning, councils in England are being threatened with legal action for running public health ...
Medical Xpress / An existing, FDA-approved drug could stem the spread of breast cancer
Cancer spreads (metastasizes) when tumor cells shed from a primary solid tumor (for example, in the breast) and embed in other organs, such as the lung, liver, and brain, and begin to grow. Most approaches to prevent this ...
Medical Xpress / International trauma analysis finds big transfusion differences, with whole blood common in low-resource hospitals
A new international study published in eClinicalMedicine has mapped global blood transfusion practices for life-threatening abdominal injuries, highlighting significant variation in care worldwide and opportunities for health ...
Medical Xpress / Sun smart kids have 50% fewer moles and a lower melanoma risk
A long-running Queensland study has found children today are developing significantly fewer moles than kids 25 years ago, with predictions of a major reduction in future melanoma risk. The Brisbane Twin Nevus Study, led by ...
Phys.org / Mars Express orbiter captures craters on planet's Arabia Terra
Craters, craters, and yet more craters: this snapshot from ESA's Mars Express is packed full of them, each as fascinating as the last.
