Covid-19: Patients who are improving could have treatment withdrawn if others could benefit more

Is Aflatoxin More in the Milk of Lactating Mothers Who Have Previously Had COVID-19?

Background: Breast milk provides the ideal nutrition for infants. It has a nearly perfect mix of vitamins, protein, and fat. Breastfeeding has many health benefits for both the mother and infant. Breast milk contains all the nutrients an infant needs in the first six months of life. The present study aimed to measure aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) levels in breast milk and identify nutritional and socio-d...

Who are the low-risk patients that could benefit from watch-and-wait regarding the neck?

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE The management of clinically negative neck is controversial, with an ongoing debate on the indication criteria and prognostic impact of different types of therapy. The aim here was to compare the results from neck dissection and watch-and-wait, among oral cancer patients who, clinically, did not show any evidence of neck metastasis. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective analy...

If a Machine Could Talk

This paper investigates a set of ideas collected from philosophy of language, complexity theory, language technology, cognitive science and literary criticism in an attempt to throw light on the (im)possibility of language technology. It is argued that a fundamental difference between humans and computers can be described in terms of a distinction between complex and complicated systems. Howeve...

If these data could talk

In the last few decades, data-driven methods have come to dominate many fields of scientific inquiry. Open data and open-source software have enabled the rapid implementation of novel methods to manage and analyze the growing flood of data. However, it has become apparent that many scientific fields exhibit distressingly low rates of reproducibility. Although there are many dimensions to this i...

Could Morality Have