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Medical Xpress / Medicine faces an AI reckoning: What happens when machines seem more empathetic than doctors?
A new perspective published in JAMA challenges the growing narrative that artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to replace physicians, arguing instead that the technology exposes deeper structural failures in modern health ...
Medical Xpress / Boosting incomes for the poorest families could reduce child protection plans, study finds
New research led by Kingston University has found that even very modest uplifts to family finances could reduce children's chances of entering the child protection system. The study, based on data from six local authorities, ...
Medical Xpress / Exams: How to use exercise to boost your revision
It's revision season. If you're a student preparing for upcoming exams, you might be tempted to put aside sport or other physical activity for a while in order to dedicate more time to learning.
Tech Xplore / Evolvable AI: Are we on the brink of the next major evolutionary transition?
What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date?
Phys.org / XXP instrument back online, marking a key milestone in high-energy upgrade to SLAC's X-ray laser
XPP, the X-ray Pump Probe instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), is back online and welcoming researchers after a complete rebuild. The overhaul has readied XPP for the significant increase in X-ray output ...
Medical Xpress / Teenage girls and experts call for changes to tackle worsening mental health
Researchers from The University of Manchester have worked directly with teenage girls to uncover what they believe could help turn the tide on rising rates of anxiety and low mood. From their early teenage years, girls are ...
Medical Xpress / Targeted 'biological missile' blocks leukemia growth while sparing healthy tissue
New research out of VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered a targeted cancer therapy that significantly prevents leukemia progression, improves survival rates and minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
Tech Xplore / Tool can help hunger-relief groups deliver food more efficiently
Engineering researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a mathematical framework that can be used to help hunger-relief organizations get food to households that need it more efficiently than conventional ...
Medical Xpress / When promising cures collapse before they reach patients
Hospitals filled to capacity. Case counts climbing by the hour. Quarantine became routine. It was the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The world needed a vaccine that didn't exist, and there was no clear timeline for one. ...
Phys.org / New study finds urban parks in less privileged neighborhoods are smaller, hotter and more polluted
A new study from researchers at George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health reveals that not all urban parks provide equal health benefits. Parks in less privileged neighborhoods across the United States ...
Medical Xpress / The hidden cost of parental mental illness
Mental illness is among one of the most common health conditions in the U.S., with more than 1 in 5 adults living with a mental illness. Many of these individuals are parents—more than 1 in 14 children are in the care of ...
Tech Xplore / Smart motorways were halted over safety concerns—what's the future for digital roads?
For many people, the rollout of smart technology across the UK's road network has been clouded by fears about the removal of traffic-free safety lanes. Traditionally, motorway hard shoulders offered motorists a safe haven ...
