Glaucoma is a disease of the eye in which fluid pressure within the eye rises – if left untreated the patient may lose vision, and even become blind. The disease generally affects both eyes, although one may have more severe signs and symptoms than the other. There is a small space in the front of the eye called the “anterior chamber”. Clear liquid flows in-and-out of the anterior chamber, this fluid nourishes and bathes nearby tissues. If a patient has glaucoma, the fluid does not drain properly – it drains too slowly – out of the eye. This leads to…
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Two hedge fund “quants” have come up with an algorithm that diagnoses heart disease from MRI images, beating nearly 1,000 other teams in one of the most ambitious competitions in artificial intelligence. Tencia Lee, who recently left Los Angeles-based Crabel Capital Management to join a robotics start-up, said she and partner Qi Liu, a former employee of hedge fund Two Sigma, had not previously worked before with the winning technology, called deep learning. Mario Tama | Getty Images News | Getty Images Ms Lee and Mr Qi entered the contest in December and created a method that has proved, in…
Hair analysis has become standard practice for determining whether someone has abused illicit drugs. But some experts have questioned whether current methods to wash away external contaminants from samples might affect test results. Now one team confirms that for cocaine detection, a pretreatment step can cause the drug on the outside of a hair shaft to wash into it and potentially lead to falsely identifying someone as a drug user. Their study appears in ACS’ journal Analytical Chemistry. Testing a person’s locks for evidence of drug abuse has several advantages over urine and blood analyses. Sampling is simple and non-invasive.…
For people with type 1 diabetes, life is a perpetual tightrope act. They must carefully monitor the dosage and timing of insulin injections that allow them to teeter on the high wire that is optimum glucose control. Too little insulin, and their glucose levels rise, leaving them at risk over time for complications such as blindness and kidney failure; too much insulin and hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) results, making them vulnerable to coma or, in extreme circumstances, even death. Now researchers studying type 1 diabetes believe they have found a way to help patients avoid the tightrope walk altogether. Several…
African-American women are prone to hair loss, and new data presented at the American Academy of Dermatology’s 74th Annual Meeting in Washington illustrates the scope of this problem, which often goes undiagnosed. Certain styling practices may increase the risk of hair loss in this population; women who are concerned about losing their hair should consider different styling practices and see a dermatologist if they notice any signs of hair loss. AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY EXPERT Information provided by board-certified dermatologist Yolanda M. Lenzy, MD, FAAD, clinical associate, University of Connecticut, Farmington, Conn. CAUSES OF HAIR LOSS According to Dr. Lenzy,…
BlackBerry has rolled updates to several key apps for the Priv, now available on the Google Play Store. Camera, Launcher and Keyboard have been improved, with new features and refinements making their way to BlackBerry’s first Android-running smartphone. Camera has been graced with a slow motion video recording mode, which shoots at 120fps, and plays back at 30fps, so you’re getting 1/4x speed videos. BlackBerry doesn’t state the resolution, but it’s likely 720p. Launcher now gets Recent, Personal and Work views, as well as other minor tweaks like shortcut removal with a flick and grayed out app icons when you…
Source: Ingersoll Rand CNBC “Halftime Report” trader Jon Najarian purchased shares ofIngersoll-Rand on Monday for his model portfolio. In another move, he also sold MGM Resorts. Watch the video below to find out why Najarian made the move. [“source -cncb”]
No more than 18 hours before a scheduled court hearing, the FBI is now saying it doesn’t need any help from Apple to get into San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone 5c. So, as of Monday night, the hearing has been called off, and the February 16 court order that started Apple’s battle with the FBI has been stayed. Wait, what? “On Sunday, March 20, 2016, an outside party demonstrated to the FBI a possible method for unlocking Farook’s iPhone,” the Department of Justice wrote in a Monday afternoon court filing. “Testing is required to determine whether it is…
Fed governor Stanley Fischer on Monday hinted at increased interest rates this year by mentioning possible upticks in inflation. BMO’s Chief Investment Strategist Brian Belski and Pimco’s global strategic advisor, Richard Clarida, addressed the Fed’s next move on CNBC’s “Power Lunch” and agreed the market would not see a rate hikes until the summer or even fall. “We have to kind of take a step back and remember how bad January was and how much volatility there was in the markets, not only in the stock markets, but the bond markets,” Belski said. He believes that the Fed will wait…
Verizon first started pushing out the Android 6.0 update to the Motorola Droid Turbo 2 earlier last month, but the roll-out was halted shortly thereafter (update details were pulled from their website) due to unknown reasons. The good news is that the software update page is live again on Verizon’s website, and the carrier now says the update will start hitting the Turbo 2 units on its network today – March 1. The update will be rolled out in two parts, with the first one bumping the software version to 23.31.24, and the second part – which actually brings Marshmallow…