Title: AHA News: Lower Your Sodium, and Blood Pressure Will Follow
Category: Health News
Created: 2/15/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 2/16/2021 12:00:00 AM
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A new AI study has identified many more potential host species for new coronaviruses than are currently known. Scientists from the University of Liverpool used machine learning to predict which mammals could be sources for new strains of the virus. They detected a number of species implicated in previous outbreaks, including horseshoe bats, and pangolins — as well as some new candidates. [Read: How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency] The study also predicted that hedgehogs, rabbits, and domestic cats could host SARS-CoV-2, as well as numerous other coronaviruses: Our results demonstrate the large underappreciation of the potential scale of…
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Scientists have used machine learning to find drugs already on the market that could also fight COVID-19 in elderly patients. “Making new drugs takes forever,” said study co-author Caroline Uhler, a computational biologist at MIT. “Really, the only expedient option is to repurpose existing drugs.” The study team searched for potential treatments by analyzing changes to gene expressions in lung cells caused by both the disease and aging. Uhler said this combination could help medical experts find drugs to test on older people: We need to look at aging together with SARS-CoV-2 — what are the genes at the intersection of…
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TLDR: The Spade Smart Ear Wax Remover is the cotton swab 2.0, letting you see inside and clean your ears safely, all with the help of your phone. Easy question — should you use a cotton swab to clean out your ear? The answer is obviously no. And yet millions of us do it every day anyway. And it’s not even the danger of perforating an eardrum or one of the other ghastly possibilities from a slip-and-oh-God swab accident that should have you rattled. How about this — a cotton swab doesn’t even really clean your ear in most cases.…
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Google’s advertising system allowed employers or landlords to discriminate against nonbinary and some transgender people, The Markup found. Companies trying to run ads on YouTube or elsewhere on the web could direct Google not to show those ads to people of “unknown gender” — meaning people who have not identified themselves to Google as “male” or “female.” After being alerted to this by The Markup, Google pledged to crack down on the practice. “We will be implementing an update to our policy and enforcement in the coming weeks to restrict advertisers from targeting or excluding users on the basis of…
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