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Plan to feed phone data of NHS mental health patients to AI mothballed

An AI was designed to predict when people are at risk of having a mental health crisis, based on their health records, but plans to extend the project with mobile phone data seem to have been scrapped

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Emphysema missed among Black men in US due to race-adjusted lung tests

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Fascia: The long-overlooked tissue that shapes your health

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Fascia: The long-overlooked tissue that shapes your health

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All moral rights asserted. Recolouring or alteration of the image is prohibited without permission. Light micrograph of a section through a duodenum, the beginning of the small intestine, which runs from the stomach to the large intestine. It is where digestion begins and nutrients are absorbed into the blood. The interior (lumen, left) is lined with villi, which are folds in the intestinal surface that greatly increase the surface area for absorption. Also within the surface are crypts of Lieberkuhn (red-lined ovoids), which secrete enzymes into the lumen that help to digest the food. Underlying this layer is the muscularis mucosae (thin violet line) and connective tissue (blue). Across bottom are layers of smooth muscle and then circular and longitudinal muscles that contract and relax to move food through the duodenum. Magnification: x100 when printed at 15 centimetres wide.

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Irritable bowel syndrome may be caused by overreacting gut cells

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Anti-vaccine views may soften after people hear extreme implications

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Toxic foam from polluted rivers causes health problems in Colombia

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How repealing Roe v Wade in the US will lead to more women’s deaths

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Your brain may have a warning system that suppresses unwanted thoughts

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How interior design choices can boost your mental and physical health

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How interior design choices can boost your mental and physical health

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Interoception: Monkeys can sense their own heartbeat just like us

The ability to sense the internal state of the body, known as interoception, may be linked to our mental health, and macaques appear to have similar capabilities to us

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MS reversed by transplanted immune cells that fight Epstein-Barr virus

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Can a phone app really be your therapist?

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How do we decide what counts as trauma – and have we got it all wrong?

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Drugs seem to help regenerate mouse lungs damaged by cigarette smoke

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