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The software being tested comes from Vara, a startup based in Germany that also led the study. The company’s AI is already used in over a fourth of Germany’s breast cancer screening centers and was introduced earlier this year to a hospital in Mexico and another in Greece. The Vara team, with help from radiologists at the Essen University Hospital in Germany and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, tested two approaches. In the first, the AI works alone to analyze mammograms. In the other, the AI…

Patients who received true acupuncture had headaches decrease from 20 days to 7 days per month, while those who received superficial acupuncture saw a decrease from 23 days to 12 days per month.A new study investigates whether acupuncture can reduce headachesAccording to a study recently published in Neurology, the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology, acupuncture may help people with chronic tension-type headaches feel less pain.The most common sign of tension-type headaches is mild to moderately intense…

Doctors warn that ‘Overdosing’ on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful.‘Hypervitaminosis D’ is on the rise and linked to a wide range of potentially serious health issues.Doctors are warning that ‘Overdosing’ on vitamin D supplements is both possible and harmful after they treated a man who needed hospital admission for his excessive vitamin D intake. They reported their concerns in the journal BMJ Case Reports.They point out that ‘hypervitaminosis D,’ as the condition is formally known, is on the rise and…

As TikTokers published offers to help abortion seekers and privacy experts gave advice on period tracking apps, Dr. Josh Trebach worked urgently to bring attention to a 19-year-old he described on Twitter as vomiting in his emergency room. The patient had taken the herb Rue to try to abort a fetus because they no longer had access to a safe, legal abortion method. Now they were now at risk dying or, at the very least, developing serious health issues. Fortunately, the 19-year-old wasn’t real.Trebach, an emergency medicine…

Doctors are less likely to prescribe pain medication at the end of a long night shift than they are at the start, a new study reveals – perhaps pointing to a lower level of empathy for patient pain when physicians are themselves feeling worn out.  Researchers behind the study are calling for hospitals to do more to manage the schedule and the workload of health professionals, so that clinical decisions aren't affected by fatigue in these kinds of ways.Even just making physicians aware of potential bias at the end of…

Thousands take to the streets to protest in New York City.Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade is not only splitting the country into states where abortion is legal and illegal. It is also illustrating sharp divisions between anti-abortion states on whether to allow exceptions and how to enforce the law.Nearly half of the states had "trigger laws" or constitutional amendments in place to quickly ban abortion in the wake of a Roe v. Wade ruling. Yet lawmakers and…

Fertility companies and patients are moving embryos and making contingency plans in case Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion laws in some states extend to protect eggs fertilized in laboratories.More than 2% of 3.7 million babies born in the U.S. in 2019 were conceived through in vitro fertilization, the latest federal data show. Many embryos created through IVF aren’t viable, fertility specialists said, and those that aren’t ultimately transferred into a uterus may be discarded. Some fertility and legal experts said…

If you’ve struggled to lose weight throughout the years, you’ve probably tried some form of low-calorie at some point. Whether or not you saw good results, doctors are now saying that low-calorie diets could actually be harmful to your body. So where does that leave you? Well, the answer may be in low-carb diets that help fuel weight loss, while also being sustainable. Doctors say low-carb diets may fuel weight loss more than low-calorie options Low carb diets may help with weight loss more than supplements…

Image by 3DBio TherapeuticsA team of scientists at a company called 3DBio Therapeutics have successfully transplanted a 3D printed ear made from the patient's own cells, The New York Times reports.It appears to be a first in the field of tissue engineering, according to experts, and could be the harbinger of a new era of regenerative medicine."It’s definitely a big deal," Carnegie Mellon biomedical engineering researcher Adam Feinberg, who was not involved in the project, told the NYT. "It shows this technology is not an…

For many years now, health authorities around the world have been trying to reduce the overuse of antibiotics in cases where they're not strictly needed, but a new study shows the message still isn't getting through – even within the medical community.  The problem is a serious one. In addition to the risk of side effects when antibiotics are prescribed unnecessarily, the specter of antibiotic resistance is a growing concern in global health, already constituting the third leading cause of death worldwide by some…