It works by learning from images that it "sees" and continues to teach itself with each case to improve its performance. When given just a photo of the skin in question, the dermatologists correctly identified roughly 86.6 percent of the melanomas , while the CNN spotted 95 percent. [Full Article...]
Each year, the scientists said around 232,000 new melanoma cases are recorded with 55,000 deaths due to the disease in the entire world. After training the CNN to recognise the differing forms of skin cancer , the researchers pitted it against that of 58 worldwide dermatologists. [Full Article...]
Four placebo capsules within the packages were placed out of order, Allergan said, meaning users with defective packages would be taking non-hormonal placebo capsules during the first four days instead of active ones. Each Taytulla pack has 28 pills, 24 of which are active capsules with hormones. If you are a patient in the US who has used a Taytulla sample pack from lot 5620706, Exp. [Full Article...]
Folic acid and B-vitamins were associated with a reduced risk of heart disease and stroke . The results suggest that many multivitamins as well as vitamin C, D, and calcium supplements have no positive cardiovascular benefits, failing to affect the rates of heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. [Full Article...]
Food trends like cronuts and charcoal come and go, but one freaky "superfood " is back, two years after it first debuted: Cockroach milk . Their "milk" is made up of protein-infused crystals reported to have three times the energy of the equivalent mass of normal dairy milk. [Full Article...]
Bikoro Hospital director Dr Serge Ngalebato said he and other health officials were vaccinated for protection when treating Ebola patients. Access there and to nearby Iboko is hard and efforts are still ongoing to put in place a so-called "cold chain" to maintain Ebola vaccine at between minus 60 and minus 80 degrees Celsius. [Full Article...]
The cockroach milk boasts four times as much protein as cow's milk and is packed with essential amino acids. While some health food fanatics may be tempted, trying to milk a common household cockroach will not produce any of this nourishing superfood. [Full Article...]
Using a 2016 report on the benefits of insect dairy, scientists found that the Pacific Beetle cockroach of Hawaii possesses nutrient-filled milk crystals, which they use to feed their young. But, there's absolutely no scientific basis or basic regulation for what could be deemed as a superfood. "We have no evidence that it is actually safe for human consumption", Subramanian Ramaswamy, the lead ... [Full Article...]