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COVID-19 without a vaccine: How many people would have died? Here’s a thought experiment |

Let’s time-travel for a moment—but not to a land of flying cars or robot butlers. Instead, let’s picture an alternate reality: the COVID-19 pandemic, without any vaccines. No shots, no immunity drives, no fully vaccinated stickers on social media. Just endless variants, overloaded ICUs, and a world stuck in limbo.Scary? Oh, it would’ve been terrifying.

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What is Aukus, the submarine deal between Australia, UK and US?

Getty Images Australia is set to buy up to five Virginia-class attack submarines from the US A multi-billion dollar submarine deal between long-standing allies – Australia, the UK and the US – has come under the spotlight after the Trump administration said it was reviewing how the deal fits in with its heavily-touted “America First”

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Benchmarks in medicine: the promise and pitfalls of evaluating AI tools with mismatched yardsticks

In May 2024, OpenAI released HealthBench, a new benchmarking system to test the clinical capabilities of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT. On the surface, this may sound like yet another technical update. But for the medical world, it marked an important moment—a quiet acknowledgement that our current ways of evaluating medical AI are

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How safe AI is in healthcare depends on the humans of healthcare

Researchers at IIT-Madras and the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute in Faridabad are developing an artificially intelligent (AI) model to use ultrasonography pictures to predict the age of a growing foetus. Called Garbhini-GA2, the model was trained on scans from about 3,500 pregnant women who had visited the Gurugram Civil Hospital in Haryana. Each

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NIH scientists publish declaration criticising Trump’s deep cuts in public health research

In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent,” he said, ”is the very essence of science.” That commitment is being put to the test. On Monday, scores of scientists at the agency sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter

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