Artificial intelligence tools and deep learning models are a powerful tool in cancer treatment. They can be used to analyze digital images of tumor biopsy samples, helping physicians quickly classify the type of cancer, predict prognosis and guide a course of treatment for the patient. However, unless these algorithms are properly calibrated, they can sometimes […]
Best buds! Nikki Bella and Brie Bella’s sons arrived 24 hours apart and have been bonding ever since. Nikki and her fiancé, Artem Chigvintsev, welcomed Matteo first in July 2020. “Our baby boy is here and we couldn’t be HAPPIER and more in LOVE,” the former professional wrestler captioned her son’s Instagram debut. “Everyone is […]
When Gov. Gavin Newsom provided a dire view of California’s out-of-control surge of coronavirus cases and hospitalizations this week, he referred to projection models of future death and misery that he said were becoming “alarmingly” more accurate. If true, then over the next four weeks the state’s hospitals could be overflowing with 75,000 patients—about five […]
Karolína Kurková is pregnant with her third child — and her experiences are a little different this time. The Czech supermodel, 36, revealed the news in a personal essay for Glamour magazine, in which she explains the pregnancy came as a surprise for her and husband Archie Drury. She adds that "being pregnant for the third […]
It has been a pandemic since at least biblical times, and unless effective strategies harness the global tuberculosis scourge, the disease will remain problematic and pervasive—an unending plague throughout many regions of the world. Although tuberculosis has taken a backseat in 2020 to the COVID-19 pandemic, it remains an unrelenting cause of respiratory infections and […]
Katy Perry is getting some serious mom support from Miranda Kerr as she heads back to work six weeks after giving birth to daughter Daisy Dove. Kerr rained praise upon her ex Orlando Bloom's fiancée in a comment on Perry's Thursday Instagram post, in which the pop star celebrated returning to the set of American […]
Bella Hadid can't wait to be an aunt! The 23-year-old praised her pregnant sister and fellow supermodel Gigi Hadid on Wednesday, after the mom-to-be shared the stunning first photos of her baby bump to social media. Re-posting one of the ethereal images to her Instagram Story, Bella wrote, "I'm going to be a freaking auntie!!! […]
According to a widely cited forecasting study, relaxed social distancing rules will lead to a two-fold increase in deaths from COVID-19. Predicting how much the mortality will increase, however, is fraught with huge uncertainties, as epidemiologists like me well know. That’s because the forecast relies on assumptions about what will happen in the future. To […]
A team of researchers from Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Australia has found that a substance isolated from roundworm larvae was able to reduce inflammation in the airways of mice. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the group describes extracting a protein from a type of parasite that infects rodents and used […]
Lately, our daily lives include reading complex news items with analysis of curves, simulations and models of COVID-19. Municipal governments present predictions of possible outcomes from modelling, while provincial and national governments have press conferences discussing policies to respond to the pot … pread of the disease. But what does all this data mean? How […]
