As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat

As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat

Just hours after opening its new program for American researchers called Safe Place For Science in reaction to Trump administration policies, Aix Marseille University received its first application. Since then, the university in the south of France known for its science programs, has received about a dozen applications per day from what the school considers … Read more

AI fails to detect depression signs in social media posts by Black Americans: study – ET HealthWorld

AI fails to detect depression signs in social media posts by Black Americans: study – ET HealthWorld

London: Analysing social media using artificial intelligence may pick up signals of depression in white Americans but not in Black counterparts, according to a study that highlights the risk of training AI models for healthcare-related tasks without data from diverse racial and ethnic groups. The AI model used for the study was more than three … Read more

Neuralink shows first brain-chip patient playing online chess – ET HealthWorld

Neuralink shows first brain-chip patient playing online chess – ET HealthWorld

E lon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed on Wednesday its first patient implanted with a chip playing online chess. Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulder after a diving accident, was playing chess on his laptop and moving the cursor using the Neuralink device. He had received an implant from the … Read more

Covid-19: Does research back up the US’s mix-and-match booster shot policy?

Covid-19: Does research back up the US’s mix-and-match booster shot policy?

While the scientific studies didn’t find a clear winner, it showed that all the booster shots provided strong antibody response, regardless of the combination. (File/Reuters) The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved a mix-and-match booster shot plan that allows the eligible adult population to choose from one of three vaccines — Moderna, Pfizer-BioNTech, … Read more

ID Genomics (IDG) invents dipstick-based rapid test for all genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 – ET HealthWorld

ID Genomics (IDG) invents dipstick-based rapid test for all genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 – ET HealthWorld

Seattle :ID Genomics (IDG), a Seattle-based company, has invented a dipstick-based, rapid test for simultaneous identification of a large number of genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 and has just received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expedite bringing this test to market. The test will ‘fingerprint’ at once all currently known COVID-19 variants of … Read more

US to start offering COVID-19 vaccine booster doses in September

US to start offering COVID-19 vaccine booster doses in September

The U.S. government said on Wednesday it plans to make COVID-19 vaccine booster shots widely available to all Americans starting on Sept. 20 as infections rise from the Delta variant of the coronavirus. The White House is prepared to offer a third booster shot starting on that date to all Americans who completed their initial … Read more

When Your Child Is Diagnosed with Cancer

When Your Child Is Diagnosed with Cancer

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WSJ News Exclusive | NIH Presses U.S. Nonprofit for Information on Wuhan Virology Lab

WSJ News Exclusive | NIH Presses U.S. Nonprofit for Information on Wuhan Virology Lab

The National Institutes of Health told a small New York-based nonprofit that it must hand over information and materials from a research partner in Wuhan, China, that is under scrutiny by the Trump administration to win back a multimillion-dollar research grant. Among the items the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance must provide to resume funding is a … Read more