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Forging Frontiers
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May 23, 2019
Duke Forge Associate Director Oluwadamilola “Lola”...
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May 22, 2019
In today’s Roundup: maternity leave in medical residency; the secret history of chaos theory; deep learning tackles lung CTs for cancer diagnosis; no support for “candidate genes” in depression; insects: not (all) dead yet; open science and...
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May 20, 2019Every Thursday night, I find myself facing an opponent brandishing a fencing sabre on a narrow strip, 14...
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May 17, 2019
In today’s Roundup: how our education system shortchanges many students; is smaller better for neural networks?; “ultraprocessed” food and weight gain; wasps understand logic; the community impact of hospital closings; synthetic genome for E...
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May 15, 2019
In today’s Roundup: stoking spurious 5G fears; artificial intelligence taps grant reviewers; beware the black box; the loss of small-town hospitals; catering to Monarchs; the politics of pregnancy loss; EPA turns off tap for long-running...
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May 15, 2019When I finished my surgical training, I promised my skeptical husband that we had finally reached the promised land of “being an attending.” No more 80- to 100-hour work weeks! No more falling asleep after sitting still for 10 minutes! No longer...
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May 10, 2019
In today’s Roundup: making a case for (slightly) riskier playgrounds; phage therapy fights massive infection; AI for fixing misdiagnosis, accelerating genomic sequencing, and reconstructing fallen buildings; expanding the therapeutic window...
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May 8, 2019
In today’s Roundup: Social media’s impact on youth not easy to delineate; reassessing medicine’s basic priorities; therapies with little evidence but hefty price tags; AllofUs releases data browser; “expiration dates” for medical evidence;...
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May 3, 2019
In today’s Roundup: censorship can’t solve misinformation; AI needs more oversight; oncology comparators scrutinized; surprising source for gender differences in grant review; British river wildlife aswim in drugs; failing to learn the...
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May 1, 2019
In today’s Roundup: six-figure snakebite; peering under the hood of machine learning; understanding health records as “digital specimens”; what physicians can learn from Bach; journalists fall for misinformation, too; a directory of...