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According to an article in ARRS' American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) spot compression view could help characterize equivocal DBT findings, thus reducing further workup for benign findings. Noting that DBT spot compression increased both intrareader and…

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Private equity firms are increasingly investing in behavioral services for troubled youth, according to a new report released on Thursday by the nonprofit Private Equity Stakeholder Project. Services private equity firms are buying into include those…

Family or species, color or size, grouping things into categories is efficient for the brain. But those categories can also create biases in perception, studies show. People perceive things that are in the same group as more similar to each…

Since 2016, hospital system Mass General Brigham (MGB) has delivered hospital-level care to more than 2,000 acutely ill patients in the comfort of their own homes, securing its place as a leader in the hospital-at-home (HaH) movement in the United…

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* pre-print server, a team of researchers used cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to determine the spike (S) structures of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant to understand how the mutations…

There are two types of people in the world: those who care what others think about them, and those who rarely give it a second thought. The former usually seek external validation from others – that is, their self worth…

Sweden is one of the few countries that have removed the dental health recommendation to give prophylactic antibiotics to people at a higher risk of infection of the heart valves, so-called infective endocarditis. Since the recommendation was removed in 2012,…

FILE PHOTO: A man smokes a cigarette as a medical worker in a protective suit collects a swab from a resident at a makeshift nucleic acid testing site, during the second round of mass testing for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…

Stressful experiences can lead to adaptive or detrimental behaviors. Understanding how stress can affect our brains can help understand basic brain function and is also essential to discerning causes and treatments for some diseases. A group of researchers led by…

Whether it’s their heart shape, their seductive coloring or just the fact they make such sweet company, strawberries often are associated with romance. And if strawberries be the food of love eat on, experts say. Strawberries not only taste good,…