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Frustrated by the medical system, patients turn to AIMany people are turning to chatbots for health advice because doctors feel rushed, costly, or hard to reach. Users appreciate quick, friend...- 'Took a page from Elon Musk’s book of parenting': Billionaire CEO sparks outrage with sci-fi parenting plan to ‘stay relevant’ in AI ageAlexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, is postponing parenthood until Elon Musk’s Neuralink or similar brain-chip technology becomes viable for ch...
- Adriana Smith, a 30-year-old brain-dead pregnant woman from Georgia, is grabbing headlines in the U.S.; here's why and what could happen nextAdriana Smith, a pregnant woman in Georgia, was declared brain-dead. Due to Georgia's abortion laws, she was kept on life support. The hosp...
- Could your baby be smarter? US startup promises higher IQs in embryos for a hefty priceHeliospect Genomics, a U.S. startup, offers wealthy couples embryo screening for IQ and other traits, costing up to $50,000. This service r...
- That message from your doctor? it may have been drafted by AIMany patients receiving those replies have no idea that they were written with the help of AI. In interviews, officials at several health s...
- AI chatbots are here to help with your mental health, despite limited evidence they workEarkick is one of hundreds of free apps that are being pitched to address a crisis in mental health among teens and young adults. Because t...
- Scientists use brain scans and AI to 'decode' thoughtsWhile the main goal of the language decoder is to help people who have the lost the ability to communicate, the US scientists acknowledged ...
- Are we tired of Covid-19? Mask up, don’t let your guard down yetThe small percentage of people who avoided Covid-19 for 2 1/2 years are also finding out BA.5 has ways of slipping past their defenses.
- A new wave of Covid in the offing? These 7 steps can help lower your riskWhile the virus is unpredictable, there are clear ways to protect yourself.
- The world is unprepared for the next pandemic, report saysThe report recommends that countries include funding for health security in their national budgets and review their performance in the curr...
- Can driving skills be an early indicator of dementia? Researchers are seeking answersA study found that driving behaviour and age could predict preclinical Alzheimer’s 88% of the time.
- India's most purchased drugs in the last decade are for cardiac ailments, diabetesAt around Rs 21,000 crore annually, cardiac medication forms the biggest therapy of drugs being bought by Indians today. A decade ago, it w...
- Should vaccine volunteers now get the real thing?Tens of thousands of Americans have volunteered to test COVID-19 vaccines, but only about half of them got the real thing during trials. No...
- Off-switch for CRISPR may improve safety of gene editing systemNew York, Dec 30 (IANS) In a study that has the potential to improve the safety and accuracy of CRISPR applications, researchers have disco...
- The 11 most influential business books of the past decadeFor the past decade, the Financial Times has been gathering judges from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to determine the year's best busines...
- Genetic testing is taking medicine to an all new extremeThe technology, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), can be used in conjunction with in-vitro fertilization to test for genetic ...
- Bioethicists chary of making animals 'human'However, bioethicists are getting increasingly concerned about recent research that is aimed at humanising animals in various ways.
- The cloning controversyThe birth of Dolly the cloned sheep reminded bioethicist Leon Kass of William Blake's poem. Like all her fluffy predecessors, Dolly had the...
- Faucet drip, or monsoon?Genome pioneer J Craig Venter sports a small salt-and-pepper goatee , appropriate for someone claiming to have synthesised life from off-th...
- Cellphone users rarely move far from homeResearchers secretly tracked the locations of 1,00,000 people outside the United States through their cellphone use and concluded that most...
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