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New App Helps Relieve Back Pain

Back problems are among the most common causes of sick leave. Every year as many as one in 15 adults in Norway sees a doctor or physiotherapist due to lower back pain. Worldwide, back pain is the most common cause of disability.

Many people are afraid to be physically active when they experience back pain, but reducing the activity level often prolongs or even aggravates the condition.

Beware Using Telemedicine for Voice and Speech Therapy

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, people across the world have experienced how teleconferencing platforms like Zoom help folks stay connected - playing games with friends, hosting virtual weddings, and even visiting a doctor. But when it comes to telemedicine, not all medical care is easily translated to a remote format.

Surrey Builds AI to Find Anti-Ageing Chemical Compounds

The University of Surrey has built an artificial intelligence (AI) model that identifies chemical compounds that promote healthy ageing - paving the way towards pharmaceutical innovations that extend a person's lifespan.

Artificial Intelligence Models to Analyze Cancer Images Take Shortcuts that Introduce Bias

Artificial intelligence tools and deep learning models are a powerful tool in cancer treatment. They can be used to analyze digital images of tumor biopsy samples, helping physicians quickly classify the type of cancer, predict prognosis and guide a course of treatment for the patient.

New High-Tech Portal Launched to Speed Hearing Loss Innovations

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) launched a new online tool that could more quickly advance medical discoveries to reverse progressive hearing loss. The tool enables easy access to genetic and other molecular data from hundreds of technical research studies involving hearing function and the ear.

Smartphone Photos can be Used to Detect Anemia

A picture of a person's inner eyelid taken with a standard smartphone camera can be used to screen for anemia, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Selim Suner of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital, USA, and colleagues.

EU Digital COVID Certificate Enters into Application in the EU

The EU Digital COVID Certificate Regulation enters into application. This means that EU citizens and residents will now be able to have their Digital COVID Certificates issued and verified across the EU. 21 Member States as well as Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein had already started to issue certificates ahead of today's deadline, and five EU countries are starting now.

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New App Helps Relieve Back Pain

Beware Using Telemedicine for Voice and Speech Therapy

Surrey Builds AI to Find Anti-Ageing Chemical Compounds

Artificial Intelligence Models to Analyze Cancer Images Take Shortcuts that Introduce Bias

New High-Tech Portal Launched to Speed Hearing Loss Innovations

Smartphone Photos can be Used to Detect Anemia

EU Digital COVID Certificate Enters into Application in the EU

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