Health

Talking on a mobile phone even for a very short time each week can raise the risk of high blood pressure — a major cause of heart attacks and strokes.   That’s according to new research out of Southern Medical University, as SNWS, a British news agency, has reported. Those …

The World Health Organization said Friday that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed at least 7 million people worldwide. WHO first declared COVID-19 to be an emergency more than three years …

More than a half million home COVID-19 tests from Roche and SD Biosensor should be thrown out immediately, the Food and Drug Administration is warning, citing “significant concerns” over bacteria that could infect users of the tests. The FDA says the recalled “Pilot COVID-19 At-Home Tests” can be identified by lot …

Anyone who uses Snapchat now has free access to My AI, the app’s built-in artificial intelligence chatbot, first released as a paid feature in February.  In addition to serving as a chat companion, the bot can also have some practical purposes, such as offering gift-buying advice, planning trips, suggesting recipes …

Reserve, Louisiana — Up and down Lydia Gerard’s street in the small Louisiana community of Reserve, she points to the homes of neighbors who have either died of cancer, or now have a terminal diagnosis of the disease. “It’s almost everywhere you look,” Gerard told CBS News. Just outside Reserve …

18-year-old Andrea Olsen and 16-year-old Zach Harpaz (pictured) used Insilico Medicine’s AI platform to find therapy targets for brain cancer. Click the article below to learn more. (Andrea Olsen and Zach Harpaz) HUMAN INTELLIGENCE – Meet the two teenagers (and a few others) who are using AI tech to tackle …

Dozens of people were likely infected with COVID-19 at a conference held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, from April 24 to 27, according to a CDC representative. At the annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference, officers known as “disease detectives” gathered to …

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine for use in the U.S., the public health agency announced on Wednesday. The drug, called Arexvy, is approved for use by people 60 years and older to prevent RSV, which is a lower respiratory tract …

As Californians look forward to the summer to enjoy the sunny weather and blue waters, they are now accustomed to something else lurking in the background: the threat of wildfires. Out-of-control wildfires don’t just ravage forests and destroy homes — they also may impact the care of patients in hospital …

As part of the federal government’s initiatives to improve mental health care, the U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy in Washington, D.C., has released an advisory titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community.” The surgeon general, …