Title: Americans Still Avoiding ERs in Pandemic, But Uptick Seen in Mental Health Crises
Category: Health News
Created: 4/16/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/19/2021 12:00:00 AM
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Most fitness trackers are rather drab things. Sure, there are some smartwatches that toe the line between technology and fashion decently enough, but if you want a more basic device that emphasizes the fitness-tracking aspect, there isn’t too much to choose from. Fitbit is trying to fill this gap with its new $150 Luxe tracker. As one might presume from the name, it aims to be Fitbit’s most stylish tracker yet. It offers a svelte, polished design that, at a glance, does look a bit nicer than most of Fitbit’s current lineup — though we’d have to see one in…
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The first draft of the human genome was published 20 years ago in 2001, took nearly three years and cost between US$500 million and $1 billion. The Human Genome Project has allowed scientists to read, almost end to end, the 3 billion pairs of DNA bases – or “letters” – that biologically define a human being. That project has allowed a new generation of researchers like me, currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National Cancer Institute, to identify novel targets for cancer treatments, engineer mice with human immune systems and even build a webpage where anyone can navigate the entire…
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(AI) and computer science that enables automated systems to see, i.e. to process images and video in a human-like manner to detect and identify objects or regions of importance, predict an outcome or even alter the image to a desired format [1]. Most popular use cases in the CV domain include automated perception for autonomous drive, augmented and virtual realities (AR, VR) for simulations, games, glasses, reality, and fashion or beauty-oriented e-commerce. Medical image (MI) processing on the other hand involves much more detailed analysis of medical images that are typically grayscale such as MRI, CT, or X-ray images for automated…
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Title: AHA News: Waist Size May Better Predict AFib Risk in Men
Category: Health News
Created: 4/15/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/16/2021 12:00:00 AM