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AI Therapy companion 'replika' gains traction among lonely students

The young adult mental health outcomes of using a GPT3-enabled chatbot.

24 Jan 2024

New European research and innovation project launched to study healthy aging

A new European research and innovation project studying healthy ageing launched this month. This collaborative project has been awarded funding from Horizon Europe, the EU's key funding programme for research and innovation.

24 Jan 2024

Preparing to hang up the car keys as we age

Lewis Morgenstern has made up his mind. When he turns 65 in four years, he's going to sign an advance directive for driving.

24 Jan 2024

In Los Angeles, occupational therapists tapped to help homeless stay housed

Carla Brown waits on an air mattress, eager for her occupational therapist to arrive at her apartment next to the Hollywood Freeway, mere blocks from where she once camped on the sidewalk.

24 Jan 2024

988-hotline counselors air concerns: More training needed to juggle a mix of calls

In the year and a half since its launch, 988 — the country's easy-to-remember, three-digit suicide and crisis hotline — has received about 8.1 million calls, texts, and chats.

24 Jan 2024

New mobile app proves effective in enhancing TB drug adherence

Mobile phone application called Gamified-Real-Time Video Observed Therapy or GRVOTS.

24 Jan 2024

WHO issues ethical guidelines for AI in healthcare, focusing on large multi-modal models

The WHO released guidance on the ethical use and governance of AI in healthcare, focusing on large multi-modal models (LMMs), addressing concerns like data privacy, biases, and job displacement in the health sector.

23 Jan 2024

New workflow identifies shared cancer targets, advancing immunotherapy

Researchers developed the Splicing Neo Antigen Finder (SNAF) workflow, integrating deep learning to identify shared immunogenic neoantigens in cancers, offering new targets for cancer immunotherapy, particularly in melanoma and ovarian cancer.

23 Jan 2024

Prolonged sitting at work linked to increased mortality risk

Study reveals that prolonged sitting at work increases the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, which can be mitigated by alternating sitting with non-sitting activities and engaging in 15-30 minutes of daily leisure-time physical activity.

23 Jan 2024

$Walking difficulty predicts higher fracture risk$

Walking difficulty predicts higher fracture risk

The ability to walk one kilometer comfortably can help predict fracture risk, according to researchers at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research.

23 Jan 2024

Education saves lives across all demographics, study reveals

Education saves lives regardless of age, sex, location, and social and demographic backgrounds. That's according to the latest and largest study of its kind published today in The Lancet Public Health.

23 Jan 2024

AI risks in healthcare: Misdiagnosis, inequality, and ethical concerns

Healthcare providers need to be aware of the risks of using AI – especially in low- and middle-income countries – the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

23 Jan 2024

Study shows how hospitals can improve patient sleep

Hospital patients sleeping near windows sleep better than those in other parts of a ward, according to a new study from the University of Surrey and the University of Padova.

23 Jan 2024

Novel software measures the significance of specific genomic biomarkers to help predict diseases

IntelliGenes, a first of its kind software created at Rutgers Health, combines artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning approaches to measure the significance of specific genomic biomarkers to help predict diseases in individuals, according to its developers.

23 Jan 2024