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One radiologist supported by AI detected more cases of breast cancer in screening mammography than two radiologists working together, reports the ScreenTrustCAD study from Karolinska Institutet in a paper, titled "Artificial intelligence for breast cancer detection in screening mammography: A paired-readers prospective interventional screen positive trial," published in The Lancet Digital Health. The researchers say that AI is now ready to be implemented in breast cancer screening.

One morning in June, barely 5 months after the first dispensary for recreational cannabis opened in New York State, neuroscientist Yasmin Hurd spoke via Zoom to an audience of educators and specialists who work with or run programs for children. The session’s organizers, alarmed by how many children in their South Bronx community were now getting their hands on cannabis, had sought Hurd’s expertise on the drug’s effects.

They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020.

North Korea has announced it will allow its citizens living abroad to return home in an easing of its coronavirus-era border controls. But it will still require them to do a one-week quarantine.

As Japan started releasing treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant on Thursday, scientists are calling on the public to take advice from experts in health and radiological protection in order to dispel myths and allay overblown fears of contamination.

William James, the famous American philosopher and psychologist, was nothing if not perspicacious. On one occasion, however, James discovered within himself an alarming moral blindness. The scion of an elite family whose childhood environs included New York City, Geneva and Paris, James was traveling in the mountainous countryside of North Carolina where, in the years just prior to the turn of the century, ordinary folks eked out a scant living from the land. Smaller trees had been razed and centuries-old giants girdled. Charred stumps, dead trees left standing and scattered clumps of Indian corn had taken the place of lush foliage. Crude log cabins littered the bare landscape. The author of the monumental “Principles of Psychology” instinctively shrank from what he saw. To James, the settlement was “a sort of ulcer, without a single element of artificial grace to make up for the loss of Nature’s beauty.”

Scientists have fully sequenced the Y chromosome for the first time, uncovering information that could have implications for the study of male infertility and other health problems.

On Wednesday evening, hordes of people were relishing raw fish at Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market ― a rare scene of late due to growing fears over Japan's release of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

In the United States and other western countries, a form of esophageal and stomach cancer has risen dramatically over the last five decades. Rates of esophageal adenocarcinoma, or EAC, and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma, or GCA, are both highly fatal.

A day after Japan's announcement of a plan to release treated radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean this week, the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) vowed, Wednesday, to put up an "all-out fight" against those responsible for the move.