MEDICINE & HEALTH

New App Forecasts Developing Hernia Risk after Abdominal Surgery

App uses data to tackle issues affecting patient following surgery Following abdominal surgery, a new app can predict the chances of a patient developing an incisional hernia, utilizing big data to potentially help deal with a problem that can affect one out of every eight of these surgical patients.

Brains Use Short Rest Periods to Strength Memories

Rest plays a significant role in learning The National Institutes of Health researchers, in a healthy volunteers' study, discovered that our brains might solidify the memories of new skills we just practiced a few seconds earlier by taking a short rest.

Partner Up if You Want to Stop Smoking

It works best in pair to kick the habit A study presented at EuroPrevent 2019, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology, has a central message in it, which is kicking the habit works best in pair.

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