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New app to help people eat five portions of fruit and veg a day
Users select food or drink from an extensive choice of icons. Credit: Bournemouth University A new app has been developed to help people reach the recommended target of eating five portions of fruits and vegetables a day. It tells users whether they are eating the right portion sizes, as well as the right foods, to
Top 10 AI and machine learning stories of 2022
Healthcare's comfort level with artificial intelligence and machine learning models – and skill at deploying them across myriad clinical, financial and operational use cases – continued to increase in 2022. More and more evidence shows that training AI algorithms on a variety of datasets can improve decision support, boost population health management, streamline administrative tasks
Navigating the Holidays When Your Adult Child Has Substance Issues
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Babies in Danger From Ingesting Opioids Laced With Animal Tranquilizer
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Meet Four CEOs on a Mission to Help Women Feel Healthy
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Is Long COVID Less Likely With Omicron Strains?
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Recent statistics show more than 20% of healthcare costs resulting from emergency department utilization, hospitalizations and hospital readmissions can be attributed to just 1% of patients. THE PROBLEM In 2017, University of Virginia Health's 30-day readmission rate for patients with complex and costly medical conditions was as high as 17% to 18% per year. This
Effective or just expensive? AI’s role in radiology
Skip to main content December 28, 2022 06:00 AM After his uncle died in 2018 from late-stage lung cancer, Pelu Tran determined that artificial intelligence could have made a difference, potentially aiding doctors in finding the cancer earlier on imaging scans and avoiding the delay of critical treatment. Tran, an entrepreneur who studied both medicine
WHO Ethiopia Successfully Completes Workshop of Biennium 2024-2025 Planning
The Ethiopian Country Office of the World Health Organization- (WCO Ethiopia) successfully completed a two-day planning workshop in consultation with government stakeholders and development partners. Held from 12th - 13th December 2022, the planning workshop aimed at aligning with the WCO Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) 2021-2025, the 13th General Program of Work (GPW 13), the
Sierra Leone vaccinates 70% of its population against COVID-19, meets global target
Freetown 21 December 2022 – Sierra Leone has achieved the global World Health Organization (WHO) target of fully vaccinating 70% of the population against COVID-19 by the end of 2022. The milestone places Sierra Leone among just three other countries in the African region to have reached the target. The 70% target was set by global