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One of us who works at the tech desk may have eaten five pieces of pizza last night — without any awareness of the total calories. It might have been a good opportunity to use Cal AI, an app where users can upload a photo of their meal and receive a calorie count that has a purported 90% accuracy. Cal AI isn’t the first digital calorie counter, but it has a 4.8-star rating on the Apple App Store and over 1 million downloads on Google Play. @Techcrunch has more on this app developed by a pair of teenagers.

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TechCrunch · Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers | TechCrunchCal AI has generated over 5 million downloads in 8 months, it says. Founders Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack are just 18.
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What’s more, electric heat pumps aren't just great for the environment.

They’re safer for human health than old fossil-fuel-burning furnaces, reducing risks related to heart attacks and asthma.

Plus, they help lower energy bills in the long run! #Health #EnergySavings

The Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy Through Adolescence, 4th edition, 2021, 11,695 pages

The fourth edition of The Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health gives reliable and understandable information about the causes, symptoms, and treatments of the conditions and diseases facing human population between the ages of birth through adolescence.

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(2011 edition)

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(2016 edition)

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Scientists led by a team from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have found a "strong link" between Western-style diets and neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The researchers' analysis also "identifies specific nutrients and foods that could serve as the foundation for improved dietary guidelines and preventative strategies," says food scientist David Horner. Read more at @ScienceAlert:

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ScienceAlert · Maternal Diet in Pregnancy Linked to Child's Risk of Future DisordersScientists led by a team from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark have found a "strong link" between Western-style diets and neurodevelopmental conditions, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Wes Streeting's plan to collapse NHS England into the Department of Health & Social Care, reversing a key element of the Lansley 'reforms' is a real world test of whether the NHS is under-managed & over administrated, or under-administrated & over-managed, or its problems lie elsewhere?

Like every large organisation the management function is vital but often performed badly... whether getting rid of up to 30,000 managers is the solution is another matter?

#Health #NHS

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The Guardian · 30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHSBy Denis Campbell

Newborn babies have been exposed to measles at a Texas hospital and are receiving antibodies to protect them, NBC reports. The virus was brought into the University Medical Center Children's Hospital by a mother in labor — doctors didn't realize until after her admission that she was infected, and it's unclear when she tested positive. The immunoglobulin injections have been given to babies as young as three days old. A 2021 study found this therapy is highly effective in protecting exposed newborns who are too young to be vaccinated. Emergency masking procedures have also been implemented.

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NBC News · As Texas measles outbreak grows, newborn babies were exposed to the virus in Lubbock hospitalBy Erika Edwards
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When Spanish colonizers established a town in the mountains of Bolivia in the 1500s, they might have expected to expand their communities by having babies, but they could not. While Indigenous folks raised families, not a single child of European descent was born for decades. It was all down to the lack of oxygen at altitude, which the settlers were not genetically adapted to deal with. @KnowableMag reports on how scientists are now studying this to see if they can help pregnant people whose bodies are struggling to provide enough oxygen to their fetuses, at any altitude.

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Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsBorn in thin air: Overcoming the challenges of pregnancy at high elevationIn people not adapted to life at altitude, the sparse oxygen can impair fetal growth, causing problems that can last a lifetime. Researchers are searching for remedies.

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