Artificial intelligence is being trained to predict whether someone is likely to develop oral cancer and may ‘revolutionise’ diagnosis, researchers claim Oral cancer risk is increased by factors including poor diet, tobacco and viruses Diagnoses of oral cancers have risen by nearly 60 per cent in the last decade However, the evaluation of a patients risk … Read more
England’s chief public health officials tonight unveiled gloomy graphs that show how all models of the coronavirus second wave predict the number of deaths will exceed their ‘worst cases scenario’. At the heart of the scientific data supporting Boris Johnson’s decision to plunge England into a second lockdown was a graph comparing the predictions of … Read more
England’s chief public health officials tonight alleged that the country is on course for a much higher death toll than during the first wave of Covid-19 unless a second national lockdown is imposed. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference tonight, Professor Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance claimed that England is currently experiencing ‘around … Read more
The Prime Minister has been told to prepare for the second wave of coronavirus to be more deadly than the first, with the death toll likely to remain high throughout the winter, SAGE advisors have reportedly warned. With total deaths involving the virus reaching 61,000 across the Britain, Downing Street did not deny a projection … Read more
The Prime Minister has been told to prepare for the second wave of coronavirus to be more deadly than the first, with the death toll likely to remain high throughout the winter, SAGE advisors have reportedly warned. According to internal analysis provided by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), deaths will peak at a … Read more
Psychological fallout from the pandemic will cause birth rates to drop, people to stay single for longer and women to sexualise themselves more, experts have predicted. Experts from the US reviewed 90 studies to help them predict how COVID-19 could shift social behaviours and gender norms — even among those not infected. They expect planned pregnancies … Read more
It may be difficult to predict how well a student will perform academically, but a new innovation can do so just by looking at their tweets – and with more than 93 percent accuracy. A computer model trained on thousands of test scores and one million social media posts to distinguishing between high academic achievers … Read more
Doctors are now able to predict how likely their patient is to die or be hospitalised from Covid-19 using a new tool. Researchers said the model by Oxford University experts could help devise a more targeted shielding programme during the second wave of the pandemic. The tool — called QCOVID — found just the five … Read more
A non-invasive sleep test may be able to help diagnose and predict dementia in older adults, a new study suggests. Researchers used a model to assess the difference between a person’s actual age and the biological age of their brain. Dementia patients monitored in their sleep had much higher scores than non-dementia patients and showed … Read more
A non-invasive sleep test may be able to help diagnose and predict dementia in older adults, a new study suggests. Researchers used a model to assess the difference between a person’s actual age and the biological age of their brain. Dementia patients monitored in their sleep had much higher scores than non-dementia patients and showed … Read more