The 90-minute coronavirus test that’s 94% accurate: On-the-spot Covid-19 screening that delivers result in less than two hours could transform diagnosis this winter, experts say The CovidNudge test is a machine the size of a shoebox and is 94% accurate The process involves collecting nasal and throat swabs and placing them on to a cartridge which … Read more
Monsoon season is in full swing in India and Bangladesh, making it paramount to deliver real-time early warning for floods in specific regions. The current COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the in-person networks which people rely on for advanced warnings. In a bid to make it easy for people in developing countries to get advance warnings, … Read more
Tough teachers who predicted their pupils’ GCSE results fairly will face the blame if they are too low, warns education expert Teachers who give accurate marks ‘could be blamed,’ for not inflating grades Former headteacher predicts a shortage of sixth form places after results day Lord Blunkett has called for ‘Nightingale-style’ provision for further education … Read more
A simple blood test can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, sometimes decades before symptoms even begin. Scientists revealed a protein involved in the damage of brain cells accumulates in the blood of patients up to 20 years before memory declines. P-tau217 clumps abnormally in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients — and some tiny fragments can leak into … Read more
Coronavirus antibody tests are only known to be accurate between three and four weeks after someone has had Covid-19, a scientific review has found. They may also not work on people who have only had a mild illness, but researchers can’t be sure because almost all studies have been done on people who were so … Read more
Thousands of Britons who have swabbed themselves for coronavirus will have been wrongly told they don’t have Covid-19, experts fear. Anyone with symptoms of the virus – a fever, cough or lost sense of smell – can now book an appointment to get tested at a drive-through centre or have one posted. But even people … Read more
A California biotech company claims it has made a nearly 100 percent accurate coronavirus antibody test that screens for the immune cells using just a drop of dried blood from a finger prick. Enable Biosciences used the test on 31 people who had recovered after testing positive for coronavirus and compared their results to those … Read more
New Prince Harry and Meghan Markle book will be the ‘definitive story’ and an accurate portrayal of the couple’s lives as modern royals, say authors Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand’s book Finding Freedom due out in the summer Book is advertised as an ‘honest, up-close and disarming portrait,’ of the couple Authors say they had … Read more
A Google-developed AI that was capable of identifying cases of diabetic retinopathy (DR) with 90 percent accuracy in the testing laboratory has turned out to be much less useful in clinics and hospitals. In laboratory settings, the AI designed by Google Health performed at the equivalent level of a medical ‘specialist,’ but in testing at … Read more
The coronavirus has now spread to almost 70 countries around the world and health officials are scrambling to stop people spreading the virus among themselves. But with many patients not realizing they’re ill, and others carrying on with normal life until they are diagnosed, the fast-spreading infection is proving difficult to contain. Avoiding an infection … Read more