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Psychologists create first-ever body-maps of hallucinations

University of Leicester psychologists have, for the first time, created body-maps of the sensations that arise during hallucinations in people experiencing psychosis. The study, published in The Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine, provides the most extensive descriptive data to date on the feelings that arise during hallucinations and where individuals reported sensations in the body. University of Leicester

Researchers create model to calculate COVID-19 health outcomes

University of California, Irvine health sciences researchers have created a machine-learning model to predict the probability that a COVID-19 patient will need a ventilator or ICU care. The tool is free and available online for any healthcare organization to use. “The goal is to give an earlier alert to clinicians to identify patients who may

Could you be diagnosed by Dr Alexa?

Diagnosed by Dr Alexa: Smart speakers will be joined to the NHS website under new plans to create a virtual doctor with expert-checked advice The NHS Choices website will join up with Amazon’s Alexa smart speaker Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock will give his first speech today The partnership will ensure people have

Researchers create heart cells to study AFib

University of Illinois at Chicago researchers have discovered a way turn pluripotent stem cells into atrial cells, which make up the upper chambers, or atria, of the heart. The discovery will enable them to better study atrial fibrillation, the most common heart rhythm disorder also known as AFib, which originates in the heart’s atria. As