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Mpox Vaccine Protection Fades Within a Year, New Study Reveals

A recent study led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) has found that antibody levels against mpox decline rapidly within 6 to 12…

Oct 3, 2024

Health

Chatbot outperformed physicians in clinical reasoning in head-to-head study

ChatGPT-4, an artificial intelligence program designed to understand and generate human-like text, outperformed internal medicine residents and attending…

Apr 2, 2024

Social Sciences

Abortion bans linked to increase in children entering foster system, researchers find

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, effectively ending 50 years of federal protections to abortion care.

Nov 6, 2023

Health

Placebo effect accounts for more than two-thirds of COVID-19 vaccine adverse events

The placebo effect is the well-known phenomenon of a person's physical or mental health improving after taking a treatment with no pharmacological therapeutic benefit – a sugar pill, or a syringe full of saline, for example.

Jan 19, 2022