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?

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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

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

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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

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

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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