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A scientist at China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) who has recently faced media allegations that he was the first person with COVID-19 and his research on coronaviruses sparked the pandemic strongly denies that he was ill in late 2019 or that his work had any link to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. “The recent news about so-called ‘patient zero’ in WIV are absolutely rumors and ridiculous,” Ben Hu emailed Science in his first public response to the charges,…

Ever year, more than a million people in North America suffer some form of spinal cord injury (SCI), with an annual cost of more than $7 billion to treat and rehabilitate those patients. The medical community has made incredible gains toward mitigating, if not reversing, the effects of paralysis in the last quarter-century including advances in pharmacology, stem cell technologies, neuromodulation, and external prosthetics. Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord has already shown especially promising results in helping…

Behind every physician’s medical advice is a wealth of knowledge, but soon, patients across the country might get advice from a different source: artificial intelligence. In California and Wisconsin, OpenAI’s “GPT” generative artificial intelligence is reading patient messages and drafting responses from their doctors. The operation is part of a pilot program in which three health systems test if the AI will cut the time that medical staff spend replying to patients’ online inquiries.…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Investors demand returns—and many want them to materialize overnight. But not every investment opportunity has that kind of potential. Some take years to pay off, but yield big results when they do. Mutual fund managers often choose not to add stocks like this to their portfolios, even when they know they…

A compelling storytelling journey with Quarto, Shiny, and ChatGPTPhoto by Natanael Melchor on UnsplashThe Brazilian public health system has long been fighting battles to improve its efficiency in allocating resources and providing care. One of the most significant challenges is the need for patients to travel to other cities to receive necessary hospital treatment. Using data from Brazilian National Health System, we estimated that In 2021 alone, patients all over the country took part in around 4.0 million such trips.…

Dozee, a healthtech startup that offers contactless remote patient monitoring (RPM) solutions, has raised $6 million from a clutch of new and existing investors.The company said it plans to use the Series A2 funds to expand in the Indian market and deepen its research and development capabilities.Prime Venture Partners, 3one4 Capital and YourNest VC were the existing investors who participated in the funding round, while State Bank of India, J&A Partners Family office, and Dinesh Mody Ventures were the new…

Online alcohol recovery services Monument and Tempest admitted to sharing private patient information with advertisers for years, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In a disclosure filed with the California Attorney General, Monument (which acquired Temple in 2022) says the tracking tools used on both services “may have shared” names, birthdates, email addresses, phone numbers, home addresses, insurance information, and more to advertisers.Monument and Tempest, which both provide resources for patients struggling with…

The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated rapid deployment of monoclonal antibody treatments at a scale never seen before. A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine confirmed the value of these efforts. Analyzing one of the largest US databases of patients treated with monoclonal antibodies, researchers found that treatment within two days of a positive COVID-19 test reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 39% compared to untreated peers. This risk reduction was even greater for immunocompromised patients.…

Predicting cancer patient survival rates is a crucial aspect of cancer treatment and management. Accurately forecasting a patient’s prognosis helps medical professionals make informed decisions about the most appropriate course of action and can also aid in the development of personalized treatment plans.Researchers from the University of British Columbia and BC Cancer have created an AI model that predicts cancer patient survival with greater <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt"…

We have seen many videos on the internet where YouTubers and social media influencers surprise their parents or followers with gifts and giveaways. In some cases, these social media influencers even organize meetups with their fans. Here, we have a video in which a YouTuber who makes videos related to modified cars, supercars, and sports cars in Mumbai paid a surprise visit to one of his young subscribers and took him out for a spin in his BMW M3 convertible sports car. The video has been uploaded by Horsepower Cartel on…