Population movement and COVID
Mandatory stay-at-home orders can help reduce activities associated with community spread of COVID-19, including population movement and close person-to-person contact outside the household. Mandatory stay-at-home orders were associated with reduced population movement in most counties during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the…
The efficacy of contact-tracing apps
The app does not need to be downloaded by a majority of a population to be effective, In the MIT Techno Download.
Merging expertize for seniors
Three virtual care companies create one according to MobiHealth News
The failing of the UK tracing app
This article from the MIT Technology report describes what not to do in the implementation of this technology.
Nature Research Clinical Oncology Calendar
A remarkable collection of images in Oncology. Am ust-read and must-have
A new superchip for the development of superdrugs
In the MIT Tech Review, an article describes how at Argonne National Laboratory, roughly 30 miles from downtown Chicago, scientists try to understand the origin and evolution of the universe, create longer-lasting batteries, and develop precision cancer drugs.
Utilising AI to diagnose cervical cancer in Kenya
Kenya is one of the African countries where the vaccination against HPV is not implemented on a wide-scale basis. Yet, according to this article in Nature, «cervical cancer is the most common cause of cancer death for women in Kenya, where there is only around one pathologist…
AI vs doctors
The jury is still out. More high-quality studies are required. « From more than 20 000 unique abstracts, fewer than 100 studies met their eligibility criteria for the systematic review and only 25 met their inclusion criteria for the meta-analysis. These 25 studies compared the performance of…
Bye bye corticosteroids ? Welcome ClearUP
Tivic’s device is a drug-free, FDA-approved system designed to help alleviate sinus pain.
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