health
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CSIRO’s New Warning Tool Detects Patient Deterioration, but It Requires Better Electronic Medical Records
CSIRO has developed a machine learning-based early warning tool that alerts doctors to the deteriorating condition of patients in a hospital setting.
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The CSIRO Has Listed 7 ‘Global Megatrends’ That Are Shaping This Century, and It’s Not Great News
Around 3.7 million Australians have been unintentionally caught in an ocean rip. For the unprepared it can be a harrowing experience – but for experienced surfers, rips are a handy way to ride through the whitewash and out to the break. We’re not surfers, but we work at Australia’s national science agency in “strategic foresight”,…
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How Often Is Long COVID Happening? The Answer Isn’t So Easy to Find
Three years in, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to reverberate around the world. The widescale, if unequal, distribution of vaccines has surely saved millions of lives and lessened people’s misery since the beginning of 2021. But thousands of people worldwide are still dying, and millions are getting infected weekly, while newly emerging variants…
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We’re All Eating Poo, Apparently
If you’re eating, please put whatever you’re snacking on down. You don’t want to be near food while reading this article. Sorted? Okay, great. Let’s talk about poop particles then, shall we? In some pretty nasty news, recycled toilet paper company Who Gives a Crap has found data that suggests many Aussies are unknowingly covering…