Now in beta testing with Windows Insiders is a Windows 10 feature that promises to make Windows 10 more efficient.
Study examines how nurses view touch as a form of care
Touching patients while providing care is an important and unavoidable aspect of the nursing profession. Nurses can also transform touch into a useful therapeutic tool to improve patients’— and their own—wellbeing.
FDA approves immunotherapy for dMMR endometrial cancer
The anti-programmed death receptor 1 (PD-1) monotherapy Jemperli (dostarlimab) received approval for treatment of mismatch repair-deficient (dMMR) recurrent or advanced endometrial cancer that has progressed after treatment with a platinum-containing chemotherapy, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday.
Can a newborn’s brain discriminate speech sounds?
People’s ability to perceive speech sounds has been deeply studied, specially during someone’s first year of life, but what happens during the first hours after birth? Are babies born with innate abilities to perceive speech sounds, or do neural encoding processes need to age for some time? Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences of the …
Vertigo: A common symptom with many different causes
Many conditions can trigger vertigo and the first step in treating it is to find out what’s causing it, an expert says.
Two-color reporter shows cholinergic neurons engage ISR to modulate dopamine levels
A team of researchers from Duke University Medical Center, the California Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Mental Health and Baylor College of Medicine has found via a new reporter that cholinergic neurons engage the integrated stress response (ISR) to modulate dopamine levels. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes …
Researchers identify the proteins that cause intestinal disease
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have created an artificial intelligence platform that can identify the specific proteins that allow bacteria to infect the intestines—a method that paves the way for the creation of smart drugs that will neutralize the proteins and prevent disease, without the use of antibiotics. Participating in the study, which was published …
Football Fitness gives an important boost to health in women treated for breast cancer
The University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen have come together to study the effects of Football Fitness on various health parameters and self-rated health following treatment for breast cancer.
Apex Legends’ Arenas mode turns the game into Counter Strike — and it’s great
Apex Legends is getting its biggest change yet, a new mode that effectively turns the game into Counter Strike.
Study shows smartphone app can identify autism symptoms in toddlers
A digital app successfully detected one of the telltale characteristics of autism in young children, suggesting the technology could one day become an inexpensive and scalable early screening tool, researchers at Duke University report.