Author: Claudinne Miller
The Secret Ingredient of ChatGPT Is Human Advice
NYT Companies like OpenAI hone their bots using hand-tailored examples from well-educated workers. But is this always for the best? Last November, the company behind Facebook released a chatbot called Galactica. After a torrent of complaints that the bot made up historical events and spewed other nonsense, Meta removed it from the internet. Two weeks later, […]
Sep 27, 2023
Psychiatric Symptoms and Fatigue in COVID-19 Survivors
Cureus Introduction: Psychiatric symptoms and fatigue are common after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) illness. The cause of these symptoms is direct neuronal injury and indirect injury with immune-mediated inflammation. In addition, social factors also affect mental health. Objective: We aim to compare psychiatric symptoms and fatigue between COVID-19 survivors and healthy controls. Material and […]
Sep 27, 2023
What is Fat Bear Week? Everything to know about the big, beefy event.
Washington Post ’Tis the season to be jolly, and I’m not talking about Christmas. It’s Fat Bear Week, a pure and wonderful treat for people who need a break from the harsh realities of life. The competition champions the brown bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve as they complete their transformations from scrawny to elephantine for […]
Sep 27, 2023
About 250,000 courses of COVID pill Paxlovid being administered per week – Pfizer CEO
Reuters Pfizer Inc’s chief executive said on Tuesday that almost 250,000 courses of the drugmaker’s oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid were being administered per week as cases surged in the United States. Speaking at the Cantor Fitzgerald Annual Healthcare Conference, Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company is still uncertain about when Paxlovid, which is […]
Sep 27, 2023
Covid Is Back. Here’s What You Need to Know
Bloomberg While the Covid-19 public health emergency may feel like a distant memory, the virus isn’t done with us. Hospitalizations have climbed back up and experts predict Covid cases will rise further as the weather turns colder. But it’s not totally clear how we should prepare. When the darkest days of the pandemic passed, so […]
Sep 27, 2023
What Is Disease X? How Scientists Are Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Washington Post It sounds like something Elon Musk might have cooked up: “Disease X.” In fact, the term was coined years ago as a way of getting scientists to work on medical countermeasures for unknown infectious threats — novel coronaviruses like the one that causes Covid-19, for example — instead of just known ones, like […]
Sep 27, 2023
Can creatine supplements help people with long COVID?
Medical News Today Among the often-mystifying, extended effects of COVID-19 is post-viral fatigue syndrome, or (PVFS). A small new study finds that dietary creatine may help alleviate its symptoms. The study found that taking dietary creatine for three months substantially improved feelings of fatigue, and by six months, had produced improvements in body aches, breathing issues, loss […]
Sep 27, 2023
Are Your Expired COVID Tests OK to Use? Find Out Here
C|Net Even if your COVID-19 test kits show they’ve expired, their shelf life could’ve been extended. With COVID-19 cases on the rise once again, you’re likely checking your at-home COVID-19 test kits to make sure they haven’t expired since you received them last year. However, even if your box shows they’re no longer good, it’s […]
Sep 26, 2023
Merck Covid drug linked to virus mutations that can spread between people, new study says
NBC News A new study released Monday said Merck’s widely used antiviral Covid pill can cause mutations in the virus that occasionally spread to other people, raising questions about whether the drug has the potential to accelerate Covid’s evolution. The findings may increase scrutiny about the usefulness of the treatment, molnupiravir, which was one of the first Covid drugs available to doctors […]
Sep 26, 2023