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    Lowering hormone doses in contraceptives may be feasible, suggests model

    Lowering hormone doses in contraceptives may be feasible, suggests model

    A normal menstrual cycle involves multiple phases which are regulated by the endocrine system and influenced by levels of various hormones. The most contraceptive approaches, including pills, injectables and implants, involve the administration of exogenous estrogen and/or progesterone to block ovulation-the phase of the cycle in which an egg is released into the uterus. The […] More

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    Human non-hodgkin lymphoma cured by novel nuclear medicine therapy in preclinical model

    Human non-hodgkin lymphoma cured by novel nuclear medicine therapy in preclinical model

    Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a common blood malignancy. The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 80,500 new cases and 20,100 deaths will occur in the United States in 2023. The standard of care for many non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients involves chemotherapy and immunotherapy targeting the CD20 protein, which is highly expressed on most non-Hodgkin lymphoma cells. […] More

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    Novel primary care model proves effective for patients with severe mental illness

    Novel primary care model proves effective for patients with severe mental illness

    Cardiometabolic health conditions – such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart attacks – are more common in American adults with serious mental illness than the general population. With 14.2 million adults living with a serious mental illness, this represents a major challenge that the United States healthcare system must face head-on. Over the past […] More

  • Meta’s New AI Model SAM Will Let Select Individual Objects From Within Image

    Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind. The company’s research division said in a blog post that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could identify objects […] More

  • Elon Musk Defends Pay Model for Twitter Amid End to Free Verified Blue Ticks

    Elon Musk on Friday defended his controversial pay model for Twitter, claiming that any social media platform that didn’t follow suit would fail because they would be swarmed by bots. Musk made his prediction on the eve of Twitter’s April 1 ultimatum that verified accounts with the cherished blue tick that had not forked over […] More