Internet addiction and its relationship with food choice motives and the risk of eating disorders among young adults in Malaysia

Internet addiction and its relationship with food choice motives and the risk of eating disorders among young adults in Malaysia

The socio-demographic characteristics of young adults are presented in Table 1. Out of the 331 young adults who participated in this study, the majority were females (n = 186, 56.2%), aged between 25 and 30 (n = 236, 71.3%), Malay (n = 189, 57.1%), with a single marital status (n = 237, 71.6%), tertiary educated (n = 294, 88.8%) and earned less than RM 5000 …

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Real-world testing of an artificial intelligence algorithm for the analysis of chest X-rays in primary care settings

Real-world testing of an artificial intelligence algorithm for the analysis of chest X-rays in primary care settings

The aim of this study was to perform an external validation, in real clinical practice, of the diagnostic capability of an AI algorithm with respect to the reference radiologist for chest X-rays, as well as to detect possible diagnoses for which the algorithm had not been trained. Thus, the overall accuracy of the algorithm was …

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Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses

Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses

A chatbot based on Google’s large language model can take medical histories from simulated patients and offer a range of diagnoses.Credit: Tero Vesalainen/Getty An artificial intelligence (AI) system trained to conduct medical interviews matched or even surpassed human doctors’ performance at conversing with simulated patients and listing possible diagnoses on the basis of the patients’ …

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Smartwatches can pick up abnormal heart rhythms in kids, Stanford Medicine study finds | News Center

Smartwatches can pick up abnormal heart rhythms in kids, Stanford Medicine study finds | News Center

The second challenge is that even a few weeks of continuous monitoring may not capture the heart’s erratic behavior, as children experience arrhythmias unpredictably. Kids may go months between episodes, making it tricky for their doctors to determine what’s going on. Connor Heinz and his family faced both challenges when he experienced periods of a …

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