Tag: diagnosis
Yes, dogs can sniff out COVID. But not after dinner, when they need a nap
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The idea of cute puppy dogs playing a role in leading us out of this pandemic is about as tantalising a...
Goodbye, brain scrapers. COVID-19 tests now use gentler nose swabs
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Early COVID-19 images of swabbing from Wuhan, China, looked more like an Ebola news story — health-care workers fully encased in personal...
Can machines really tell us if we’re sick?
Machines don’t make the same errors as humans when it comes to decisions based on visual analysis
This week US scientists announced they have...
Why are we more likely to get cancer as we age?
It’s estimated our cells will replicate 10,000 trillion times in our lifetime. Errors in this process can lead to cancer
It’s a sobering fact that...