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Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom.

Study explores factors contributing to rural-urban difference in cervical cancer screening

Study reveals English proficiency, income, and area-level unemployment are among the influential factors and highlights need for tailored interventions to increase screening rates.

30 Mar 2024

Contraceptive content shared on social media largely not from health experts, study finds

Brigham researchers looked at tweets from 2014 to 2019 about contraceptive methods and found that only a small fraction were authored by health professionals.

29 Mar 2024

Research reveals genetic factors in cerebral palsy development

A Canadian-led study has identified genes which may be partially responsible for the development of cerebral palsy.

29 Mar 2024

Having a ruff day? Study says spending time with dogs can help

How interacting with dogs affects the emotions and psychophysiology of humans using an electroencephalogram.

29 Mar 2024

Generative AI revolutionizes antibiotic development against resistant pathogens

With nearly 5 million deaths linked to antibiotic resistance globally every year, new ways to combat resistant bacterial strains are urgently needed.

28 Mar 2024

ATLAS: The AI revolutionizing dietetics education with virtual patients

Study showcases "Authentic Teaching and Learning Application Simulation (ATLAS)," a generative AI model designed to enhance communication skills in nutrition and dietetics students by using virtual simulated patients, offering an innovative, cost-effective alternative to traditional human-simulated patients.

28 Mar 2024

ChatGPT shines in medical summary task, struggles with field-specific relevance

Study assesses ChatGPT's capability to summarize medical abstracts, revealing high efficiency in producing concise, accurate summaries but highlighting challenges in accurately assessing article relevance to specific medical fields.

28 Mar 2024

GPT-4 shows promise in locating brain lesions after stroke

Artificial intelligence (AI) may serve as a future tool for neurologists to help locate where in the brain a stroke occurred.

27 Mar 2024

Family dog interaction boosts physical activity in children with developmental disabilities

By engaging regularly with their family dog and teaching it a series of tricks and commands, children with developmental disabilities experienced a significant increase in their daily physical activity, a new study from Oregon State University researchers found.

27 Mar 2024

Mobile memory tests offer new hope for Alzheimer's detection

Dedicated memory tests on smartphones enable the detection of "mild cognitive impairment", a condition that may indicate Alzheimer's disease, with high accuracy.

27 Mar 2024

Breakthrough discovery points to potential treatment for rare neurodegenerative disease

Imagine being middle-aged and starting to feel that you are off balance a lot and that you are having a hard time coordinating your movements.

27 Mar 2024

ChatGPT can write medical notes faster without sacrificing quality

The AI model ChatGPT can write administrative medical notes up to ten times faster than doctors without compromising quality.

26 Mar 2024

GPT-4 shows expert-level accuracy in annotating cell types

GPT-4 can accurately interpret types of cells important for the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing -- a sequencing process fundamental to interpreting cell types – with high consistency to that of time-consuming manual annotation by human experts of gene information, according to a study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

26 Mar 2024

Understanding the rural-urban gap in cervical cancer screening rates

In the United States, community health centers (CHCs) mainly serve historically marginalized populations.

26 Mar 2024

Navigating the minefield of AI in healthcare: Balancing innovation with accuracy

Article explores the challenges of ensuring generative AI, like large language models (LLMs), provides accurate health information, focusing on AI errors, disinformation, and privacy concerns, while suggesting methods for improvement.

25 Mar 2024

AI's health misinformation challenge: Study calls for stronger safeguards and transparency

Study uncovers that current safeguards against health disinformation in large language models (LLMs) are applied inconsistently, and AI developers lack transparency in their risk mitigation strategies, highlighting a crucial need for more stringent regulation and comprehensive auditing processes.

24 Mar 2024

AI-based conversational agents show promise in young people's mental health interventions

Fully automated conversational agents (CAs)-mediated interventions for the emotional component of mental health among young individuals.

22 Mar 2024

From Puberty to Menopause: Clue’s CEO, Audrey Tsang on the Power of Femtech

For Endometriosis Awareness Month, NewsMedical interviewed Audrey Tsang, CEO of Clue.

22 Mar 2024

Unraveling the relationship between olfactory receptors and blood pressure sex differences

Using data from both mice and humans, a Johns Hopkins Medicine research team has found that a cell surface protein that senses odors and chemicals may be responsible for -; and help explain -; sex differences in mammalian blood pressure.

20 Mar 2024

Thriving early environments boost brain and cognitive development in children

Researchers have found that environmental supports in the first year of life, termed the thrive factor (T-factor), play a crucial role in brain, cognitive, and socioemotional development in children by age 3, underscoring the importance of quality environments for early childhood development.

19 Mar 2024

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Study explores factors contributing to rural-urban difference in cervical cancer screening

Contraceptive content shared on social media largely not from health experts, study finds

Research reveals genetic factors in cerebral palsy development

Having a ruff day? Study says spending time with dogs can help

Generative AI revolutionizes antibiotic development against resistant pathogens

ATLAS: The AI revolutionizing dietetics education with virtual patients

ChatGPT shines in medical summary task, struggles with field-specific relevance

GPT-4 shows promise in locating brain lesions after stroke

Family dog interaction boosts physical activity in children with developmental disabilities

Mobile memory tests offer new hope for Alzheimer's detection

Breakthrough discovery points to potential treatment for rare neurodegenerative disease

ChatGPT can write medical notes faster without sacrificing quality

GPT-4 shows expert-level accuracy in annotating cell types

Understanding the rural-urban gap in cervical cancer screening rates

Navigating the minefield of AI in healthcare: Balancing innovation with accuracy

AI's health misinformation challenge: Study calls for stronger safeguards and transparency

AI-based conversational agents show promise in young people's mental health interventions

From Puberty to Menopause: Clue’s CEO, Audrey Tsang on the Power of Femtech

Unraveling the relationship between olfactory receptors and blood pressure sex differences

Thriving early environments boost brain and cognitive development in children

Achieving and maintaining ISO/IEC 27001 and BS 10012 certifications

Expanding research and clinical options for children with cancer

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