Smart toilet seat records an EKG to screen for atrial fibrillation

Smart toilet seat records an EKG to screen for atrial fibrillation

AI stethoscope revolutionizes cardiac care by detecting heart disease early Eko Health co-founder and CEO Connor Landgraf discusses how their AI-powered stethoscope is revolutionizing cardiac care and improving patient outcomes. This innovative device amplifies heart and lung sounds, analyzes them in real-time and detects early signs of heart disease and arrhythmias in just 15 seconds. … Read more

Labeling mix-up led to unneeded hysterectomy, lawsuit says

Labeling mix-up led to unneeded hysterectomy, lawsuit says

ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta-area woman alleges that she was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and underwent an unneeded hysterectomy because of a labeling error.Cassandra Barksdale and her attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Kaiser Permanente alleging the mix-up led to the surgery and months of physical and emotional pain. According to the lawsuit, another patient’s … Read more

Deadly bacteria kills 5 in Louisiana in sharp rise from past years

Deadly bacteria kills 5 in Louisiana in sharp rise from past years

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A potentially deadly “flesh-eating” bacteria has killed five people in Louisiana this year, a sharp rise from the state’s typical death toll.Health officials are warning beachgoers to take extra precautions before heading into the water.Vibrio vulnificus is part of a wider group of Vibrio bacteria. Found primarily … Read more

What doctors want you to know about ‘catch-up’ sleep

What doctors want you to know about ‘catch-up’ sleep

You’ve spent Monday through Friday running on five hours of sleep, working late nights and waking up early just to do it all over again. On Saturday, you get 12 glorious hours of shut-eye and feel instantly refreshed when you wake up. You’re all caught up on your sleep, right?

The hidden risks of common disinfectants

The hidden risks of common disinfectants

When mice at Patricia Hunt’s lab at Washington State University began losing fetuses with devastating birth defects — facial deformities and missing hindquarters — or failed to reproduce at all, Hunt immediately put on her detective hat. She had seen a similar mystery before. Years earlier at her former lab in Ohio, chromosomes in mouse … Read more

Bay Area COVID wastewater levels surge as schools reopen

Bay Area COVID wastewater levels surge as schools reopen

As Bay Area students return to classrooms, COVID-19 is climbing sharply in the region’s wastewater — and the summer increase may not have peaked.Virus concentrations in July were 136% higher than in June, according to WastewaterSCAN, and nearly 54% of monitored Bay Area sites are now in the “high” category.Levels have already surpassed the region’s … Read more

Portland hospital ER identified as latest measles exposure site – KGW

Scott Bessent Explains Why He Helped Japan Strengthen the Yen - WSJ

Portland hospital ER identified as latest measles exposure site KGWPortland children’s hospital identified as measles exposure site KOIN.comNorth Portland is latest possible exposure site for measles OregonLive.comRandall Children’s Hospital identified as measles exposure site KATUSecond Gresham urgent care clinic within a week identified as measles exposure site KPTV

AI used to create viruses not found in nature for first time | Technology News

AI used to create viruses not found in nature for first time | Technology News

US researchers have announced the creation of new viruses using artificial intelligence, a scientific first that raises hopes for advances in medical treatments while also stoking anxiety about the dangers of the frontier technology.In findings published in the journal Science, researchers at Stanford University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard said they used a … Read more