Mayor Eric Adams directed the police and emergency medical workers to hospitalize people who appear to be severely mentally ill, even if they pose no threat to others. View original article Contributor: Andy Newman and Emma G. Fitzsimmons
Scientist have tested in animals a vaccine that may protect against 20 strains of influenza, helping to prevent another pandemic. View original article Contributor: Apoorva Mandavilli
Christopher Massimine, whose compulsive lying derailed a promising career in theater, maintains that it’s a mental illness that has dogged him since childhood. View original article Contributor: Ellen Barry and Dave Sanders
Google’s AI algorithm for helping to screen for breast cancer will now be part of commercial mammograms. On November 28, the company announced it licensed its AI technology to iCAD, a medical technology company that provides breast cancer detection services to health care facilities around the world. While iCAD already includes AI-based strategies in its … Read more
For the past six years, Elyssa Barbaro has gotten screened for lung cancer. The 71-year-old New Yorker smoked for about 50 years, but she doubts she would have gotten an annual preventative CT scan if her pulmonologist hadn’t told her she should. Even though the procedure takes just 15 minutes, it saved her life—more than … Read more
LONDON — The World Health Organization has renamed monkeypox as mpox, citing concerns the original name of the decades-old animal disease could be construed as discriminatory and racist. The U.N. health agency said in a statement Monday that mpox was its new preferred name for monkeypox, saying that both monkeypox and mpox would be used … Read more
Increasing intake of protein and drinking regular cups of tea or coffee is a way women could reduce their risk of suffering a hip fracture, according to new research. Food scientists have found that for women, a 25g a day increase in protein was associated with, on average, a 14% reduction in their risk of … Read more
The pandemic has become a plague of the elderly, with nearly 9 out of 10 deaths in people 65 or older. View original article Contributor: Ariana Eunjung Cha
Most products geared for private parts target women, and too often the marketing for them feeds off people’s insecurities. View original article Contributor: Perry Santanachote
A genetic test would be an improvement on current FDA-approved tests, which identify antibodies that can take weeks to emerge. View original article Contributor: Erin Blakemore