CMS Innovation Center set to launch AI health outcomes challenge
The CMS Innovation Center will open a new artificial intelligence challenge in early 2019, seeking new applications for AI and analytics that can boost clinical […]
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Chickenpox Outbreak at School Linked to Vaccine Exemptions
At least three dozen students have come down with chickenpox at a private school in North Carolina — nearly one-quarter of the student body — […]
Read moreMore than 20 California cities have unhealthy air quality from wildfires
Last Updated Nov 20, 2018 2:35 PM EST Thick plumes of smoke from the devastating wildfires in California are being blamed for poor air quality […]
Read moreWidely used reference for the human genome is missing 300 million bits of DNA: Johns Hopkins experts say additional reference genomes from different populations are needed for research
For the past 17 years, most scientists around the globe have been using the nucleic acid sequence, or genome, an assembly of DNA information, from […]
Read moreDoes going to the gym counteract your desk job? It can help, doctors say.
About one in four American adults spend at least eight hours per day sitting, according to a new study published in the Journal of the […]
Read moreA Mexican cavefish with a scarred heart
Scientists are studying a guppy-sized, blind, translucent fish that lives in the cave systems of northern Mexico to figure out why some animals can regenerate […]
Read moreFoods and supplements that may help you fight the flu this season
There are reasons the period from October through February is commonly referred to as flu season. “As the days get shorter and darker, our vitamin […]
Read moreNew MRI brain scan technique could predict up to 95% of Alzheimer’s
New MRI brain scan technique could predict up to 95% of Alzheimer’s cases years before symptoms set in, study finds The small study at Washington […]
Read moreNorth Carolina’s largest chickenpox outbreak since 1995 blamed on vaccine exemptions
North Carolina officials say a chickenpox outbreak at a private school has grown to the state’s largest in more than two decades. As of Monday, […]
Read more‘I slept with stranger on work trip but don’t know if I should tell my husband’
Dear Coleen I’m a married woman in my 30s and my husband and I have no children. A couple of months ago, I attended a […]
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