Paris, France -- The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded on Monday to three scientists for discovering how a particular...
Sydney, Australia - The makers of over a dozen suncreams have halted sales in Australia after a consumer advocacy group...
Paris, France -- Social media can push vulnerable young people towards developing eating disorders by glorifying thinness and promoting fake,...Young women and girls are much more likely to suffer from illnesses such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, though rates among men have been increasing.
Research has shown the percentage of people worldwide who have had some kind of eating disorder during their lives rose from 3.5 percent in 2000 to 7.8 percent in 2018.
Washington, United States - The US will no longer recommend Covid-19 vaccines for children and healthy pregnant women, Health Secretary...The change follows last week's announcement by Food and Drug Administration officials that they would limit approval of Covid shots to adults aged 65 and older
It comes as Kennedy who has long promoted misinformation about vaccines in general and the Covid shots in particular pushes to overhaul federal public health policy
Paris, France - When astronomers announced last month they might have discovered the most promising hints of alien life yet...Several recent studies looking into the same data have found that there is not enough evidence to support such lofty claims
The debate revolves around the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away in the Leo constellation
Researchers at Dartmouth College believe artificial intelligence can deliver reliable psychotherapy, distinguishing their work from the unproven and sometimes dubious...Their application, Therabot, addresses the critical shortage of mental health professionals.
The Dartmouth team recently published a clinical study demonstrating Therabot's effectiveness in helping people with anxiety, depression and eating disorders.
New York, United States -- AI companions powered by generative artificial intelligence present real risks and should be banned for...The watchdog, Common Sense, tested several of these platforms, namely Nomi, Character AI, and Replika, to assess their responses.
While some specific cases "show promise," they are not safe for kids, concluded the organization, which makes recommendations on children's use of technological content.
Voels, Austria -- At a laboratory in Austria's mountainous Tyrol province, scientists are DNA testing about 100 honey samples a...With fake honey flooding markets, and only a few European laboratories running such analysis, the small Austrian company Sinsoma began offering the tests two years ago.
Between 2021 and 2022, 46 percent of the honey tested under an EU investigation as it entered the bloc was flagged as potentially adulterated, up from 14% in the 2015-17 period.
At the crack of the starter's gun, and as a Chinese pop song "I Believe" blared out from loudspeakers on...The 21-kilometre (13-mile) event held in the Chinese capital's E-Town is billed as a groundbreaking effort to test the limits of bipedal robots in real-world conditions
Stephen Hauser and Alberto Ascherio were recognized for their decades researching the debilitating neurodegenerative disease, which affects nearly three million...Scientists knew the disease, which damages the central nervous system and leads to paralyzing cognitive and motor problems, was caused by the immune system turning on the body.
But they thought the white blood cells known as T cells were the lone culprit. Hauser questioned that.
Paris, France - Mel May only realised she was different while reading a news article one day. "Wait, what? Some...The idea of not being able to have inner monologue is so new that a clinical name, anendophasia, was only proposed for it in a paper last year
The inner monologue has proven extremely difficult to study because it relies on people being able to describe how they think
Paris, France -- Scientists said Wednesday they have developed the world's tiniest pacemaker, a temporary heartbeat regulator smaller than a...While still years away from being tested in humans, the wireless pacemaker was hailed as a "transformative breakthrough" that could spur advances in other areas of medicine.
Millions of people across the world have permanent pacemakers, which stimulate hearts with electrical pulses to ensure they beat normally.
