Overview A research team led by Kojiro Matsuo, an associate professor at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering within the Toyohashi University of Technology, and Kosuke Miyazaki, a professor at the Department of Civil Engineering within the National Institute of Technology – Kagawa College, has established an efficient means of identifying road intersections at […]
How is it possible for the brain to recognize drawn objects as houses or animals? In a recent study in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, in collaboration with the Freie Universität Berlin and Justus Liebig University Giessen, investigated how our perception of […]
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Of the nearly 4 million births each year in the United States, roughly 50,000 are marked by life-threatening complications, and up to 900 result in maternal death during delivery. One major, often life-threatening complication is placenta accreta spectrum (PAS), which poses a threat to both the mother and the baby. Currently, PAS cases are identified […]
University of Queensland researchers are working with people living with dementia to develop an online driver safety test that can be performed by GPs in their surgeries. Approximately 472,000 Australians are living with dementia and there is currently no clear line when driving is deemed unsafe. Dr Theresa Scott, from UQ's School of Psychology said […]
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Nine top professional emergency medicine organizations in the United States jointly issued a letter expressing concerns about the misleading and incomplete nature of a systematic review issued by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) on diagnostic errors in the emergency department. The AHRQ review, issued on December 15, 2022, stated that the findings […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. OKLAHOMA CITY — By the summer of 2021, Phil Maytubby, deputy CEO of the health department here, was concerned to see the numbers of people getting vaccinated against covid-19 slipping after an initially robust response. With doubt, fear, and misinformation running […]
Studies suggest that the gut microbiota and the brain communicate in a bidirectional manner, with changes in gut microbiome composition and function associated with neurodegenerative conditions. A recent study found that a probiotic bacterial strain could prevent the development of paralysis and degeneration of motor neurons in a worm model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). […]
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