AI systems are increasingly being deployed in safety-critical health care situations. Yet these models sometimes hallucinate incorrect information, make biased predictions, or fail for unexpected reasons, which could have serious consequences for patients and clinicians.This […]
The rate of e-bike and powered scooter injuries surged between 2019 and 2022—by 293% and 88%, respectively, according to a new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The research adds to the […]
Pediatric sepsis, a major inflammatory response to trauma that can cause organ failure and tissue death, kills about 3.3 million children each year worldwide. The catastrophic overreactions to infection or injury often hit lower-resource clinics […]
Governments, regulators and global financial institutions are overlooking major opportunities to unlock the estimated US$9.2 trillion worth of financing needed each year to fund the net zero transition, new research suggests.This post was originally published […]
Modern crowdfunding has grown from relatively modest beginnings in the late 1990s to a multi-billion-dollar financing market for all kinds of early-stage innovations. The platform Kickstarter alone went from $276 million pledged in 2012 to […]
Optimizing an investment portfolio to maximize returns while minimizing risk is the ultimate goal for investors and their advisers. However, there is no set path and challenges always arise. One such limitation is the high-dimensional, […]
Millions of Americans have been watching with growing alarm as their homeowners insurance premiums rise and their coverage shrinks. Nationwide, premiums rose 34% between 2017 and 2023, and they continued to rise in 2024 across […]
University of Birmingham researchers have developed a low-cost means of measuring indoor air quality in schools—creating new opportunities to safeguard the health of young people.This post was originally published on this site
LGBTQ+ Americans experience widespread discrimination that impacts their physical and mental health—of the over 8% of U.S. adults who are members of the LGBTQ+ community, one in three report experiencing discrimination in the past year. […]
Community coalitions across the Boston area and the U.S. are working hard to create change, whether that’s by educating communities, providing financial safety nets, or improving public health.This post was originally published on this site
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