Use of AI Plus One Radiologist Noninferior for Detecting Breast Cancer
MONDAY, Sept. 18, 2023 -- Double reading of screening mammograms by one radiologist plus artificial intelligence (AI) is noninferior to standard-of-care double reading by two radiologists, according to a study published online Sept. 8 in The Lancet...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 18, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Tell us your experience of accessing Covid antiviral medicines in the UK
We would like to hear from people who are eligible for antivirals and their experience accessing themDuring the Covid pandemic, a centralised system was developed for prescribing antiviral drugs to high risk patients who test positive for Covid.However in June this yearthe system was changed, with each NHS integrated care board (ICB) in England now having their own arrangements. As a result, people who are eligible for such drugs now need to contact local health services to find out themselves how to get hold of them if they test positive for Covid.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Guardian community team Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science Source Type: news

Pediatricians ' Group Warns Against Keto Diet for Kids With Diabetes
MONDAY, Sept. 18, 2023 -- Low-carb diets may be all the rage, but they ' re not for kids with diabetes, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). In a new report, the AAP says that low-carbohydrate diets cannot be recommended for children...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

‘Forever chemical’ exposure linked to higher cancer odds in women
New research finds evidence that exposure to PFAS and phenols increases odds of certain ‘hormonally driven’ cancers for womenWomen exposed to several widely used chemicals appear to face increased odds for ovarian and other certain types of cancers, including a doubling of odds for melanoma, according to new research funded by the US government.Using data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a team of academic researchers found evidence that women diagnosed with some “hormonally driven” cancers had exposures to certainper- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are used in thousa...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Carey Gillam Tags: PFAS Women's health Cancer Environment US news Source Type: news

‘I want to see the first African woman in space’: the Kenyan stargazer bringing astronomy to the people
Susan Murabana ’s passion for astronomy was only sparked in her 20s as science was just ‘for boys’. Now she tours Kenya with a telescope on a mission to reveal the cosmos to all childrenIt ’s 1.30am in Kenya’s parched and sparsely populated north, and 50 people are lying on their backs on the shore of a dried-up river, staring up at the night sky. Thousands of stars create a vast, glittering canvas with the ghostly glow of the Milky Way clearly visible.These stargazers have travelled 250 miles (400km) overland from Nairobi to Samburu county to witness thePerseid meteor shower– a celestial event that happens eve...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sharon Machira Tags: Global development Kenya Astronomy Science Space Africa World news Global education Meteors Source Type: news

Can you solve it? The man who made India ’s trains run on time
Get your brain on trackBy day, Shyam Sunder Gupta was Principal Chief Engineer of Indian Railways. By night, he was a guru of recreational mathematics.For decades, Gupta spent his free time exploring patterns in numbers, his numerical curiosities finding their way into journals, magazines and books.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Alex Bellos Tags: Mathematics Education Science Source Type: news

Starwatch: moon marks the equinox with cruise past Antares
How proximity to the horizon affects the colours of the moon at different points on EarthCelebrate the equinox this week with the waxing crescent moon, low in the south-south-west, cruising past the red star Antares in Scorpius, the scorpion.The chart shows the view from London at 20:00BST on 21 September. The moon will be approaching its first quarter (half-moon) phase with around 39% of its visible surface illuminated. When it is this low against the horizon, its usually silvery glow will likely be transformed into a ruddier colour. This is because the blue component of its light is scattered out of our direct view by th...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Stuart Clark Tags: Science Astronomy Space Source Type: news

Tim Peake backs idea for solar farms in space as costs fall
Astronaut says rockets from Elon Musk ’s SpaceX can reduce price of launching equipmentTim Peake has backed the idea of solar farms in space, saying the concept is “becoming absolutely viable”.Astronaut Maj Peake said the falling cost of launching heavy cargoes into orbit means that complex structures, such as solar power farms, could soon be launched into space, and had the potential to provide significant power.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill Tags: Space Science SpaceX Solar power Energy Environment Renewable energy Tim Peake Source Type: news

Misophonia: what ’s behind the phenomenon that makes certain sounds unbearable?
Stress and anxiety triggered by sounds from clocks to pigeons to popcorn affects one in five people in the UK. A new book from Dr Jane Gregory, who experiences misophonia, asks whyFor some it is the sound of a bouncing basketball. For others it is the clearing of a throat. For Dr Jane Gregory the list includes pigeons, ticking clocks and the sound of popcorn being eaten.“I cried on the plane the other day because I couldn’t figure out the volume on my new headphones and so I couldn’t block out the sound of a guy sniffing,” she says.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Science correspondent Tags: Science Health Society Books Source Type: news

How thinking in a foreign language improves decision-making
Research shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memoriesAs Vladimir Nabokov revised his autobiography,Speak, Memory, he found himself in a strange psychological state. He had first written the book in English, published in 1951. A few years later, a New York publisher asked him to translate it back into Russian for the émigré community. The use of his mother tongue brought back a flood of new details from his childhood, which he converted into his adopted language for a final edition, published in 1966.“This re-...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Robson Tags: Language Science Source Type: news

Epigenetics and evolution: ‘the significant biological puzzle’ of sexual orientation
The ‘gay gene’ some touted as explaining widespread homosexuality in humans has not been found. Might epigenetics hold the answer?Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet ourmorning and afternoon news emails,free app ordaily news podcastLast century, when things were a whole lot worse for gay people than they are today, there was a widely held notion that human homosexual behaviour was a choice, and that a homosexual person could change their ways and become heterosexual. For this reason, the occasional report of a “gay” gene was welcomed by many progressive people. The existence of such genes woul...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Benjamin Oldroyd Tags: Science Sexuality Genetics Evolution Source Type: news

Who is the mysterious German sandwich thrower? Doesn ’t matter. Nothing does any more | Emma Beddington
From local news to international politics, absolutely nothing makes sense any more. Maybe it never will. I ’m calling off the search for meaningSo what ’s your theory about the Magdeburg sandwich thrower? Just in case you haven’t yet encountered this mystery for the ages, a phantom chucker of tinfoil-wrapped sausage, cheese and salamifr ühstücksbrötchen (breakfast rolls, a German thing presumably, and I can ’t say I hate it) has been, well … not terrorising, but perhaps intriguing or mildly irritating residents along the B184 in the Saxony-Anhalt region of Germany.A picture in the newspaper of local football c...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Emma Beddington Tags: Sandwiches Life and style Psychology Source Type: news

36 Products You Need If Your Roomies Are Adult Children
If you're tired of tripping over their shoes at the door or dealing with the half-eaten bags of chips left open on the counter, you're gonna want to keep reading.
Source: Reuters: Health - September 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Who lives and who dies in the next pandemic should not depend on where they live | Michael Marmot
Aids and Covid had the worst impact in poorer countries and communities; a new health accord must address thisThe Covid pandemic was an equivocator with global unity – to misquote the porter inMacbeth. We were united in being affected by the pandemic but both its effects and the responses to it were grossly unequal. More, inequality worsens pandemics, not only current pandemics such as Aids and Covid but those yet to come.Governments are looking to address one side of this equivocation through their negotiations on apandemic accord that will be discussed during the UN general assembly in New York this month. Such a devel...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Michael Marmot Tags: Health Inequality Coronavirus Aids and HIV Infectious diseases Medical research Society Source Type: news

‘These patients do not have time’: families in UK demand access to new drug that slows brain tumours
Vorasidenib worked in trials but is not yet available on the NHSOn a fine spring day two years ago, Shay Emerton was in good spirits playing for an old pupils ’ school football team. There was just 10 minutes of the game to play, when his life changed for ever.Emerton, 26, said: “The goalie kicked to clear the ball and it hit me on the side of the head. I went dizzy and as I went to run off, my legs buckled beneath me. I thought, ‘I am in trouble here’ and then blacked out.”Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 17, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Jon Ungoed-Thomas Tags: Cancer research Health Medical research Science NHS UK news Society Source Type: news

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