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Children’s Hospital LA launches telehealth urgent care

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) has debuted Virtual Urgent Care, available to children and young adults up to age 21 who require after-hours care for non-emergency illness or injuries. The service pairs patients with CHLA providers via video meeting from a computer, tablet or smartphone.  Virtual Urgent Care will treat non-emergency illness and injuries, including…

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Openstream.ai notches patent for multimodal AI-driven digital twin

Conversational AI organization Openstream.ai announced a new patent for automated digital twin technology that gives EVA, or enterprise virtual assistant, users the ability to utilize virtual assistants that are digital twins of human experts in their respective fields.  The digital twins share their human counterparts’ knowledge and unique personas and engage in empathetic, hallucination-free conversations…

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The Science-Backed Guide to Low-Load Training & Muscle Building

  For ages, the mantra among fitness-focused weightlifters has been to lift as heavy as possible to maximize muscle size and strength development. Why? It makes intuitive sense that more force generated during each repetition should better microstrain muscle tissues, kicking hypertrophic and strength adaptations into overdrive. However, emerging research is challenging the assumption that…

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Genomics research projects in Australia secure $9M funding and more briefs

Funding worth A$6.5 million ($4 million) has been awarded to four genomics-focused research projects led by researchers from the University of Melbourne. These include a project that will establish a patient dataset of inherited retinal diseases; a rapid multi-omic liquid biopsy blood test using whole genome sequencing; research using next-generation sequencing to develop new solutions to…

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