Topic: health research
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How Bias Corrupts Medical Practice
The White House's "Make America Healthy Again" report was criticized for including fabricated citations, likely generated by AI, which undermines its recommendation to address the scientific replication crisis. AI's tendency to invent information, or "hallucinate," poses risks in legal and medica...
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Fasting Diet Triggers Dynamic Brain Changes
A study found that an intermittent energy restriction (IER) diet led to significant weight loss and dynamically altered both gut microbiome composition and activity in brain regions related to appetite and addiction. The research highlights a two-way communication between the gut and brain, where...
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New Year Fitness Goals? Meet Your Apple Watch
Apple Watch users show sustained fitness commitment, with data revealing they significantly increase and maintain activity levels well beyond the typical "Quitter's Day" drop-off in January. Apple is introducing new Fitness+ programs, music workouts, and challenges to support this momentum, inclu...
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Al Gore's AI Tracks 660 Million Polluters
Climate Trace, an AI initiative co-founded by Al Gore, monitors air pollution from over 660 million global sources, providing public data on PM2.5 to increase transparency and identify pollution impacts. The project was inspired by a community fight in Memphis and uses AI to track pollution plume...
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