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A standard rate chart for hospitals across the country is impractical as it doesn't consider real estate costs that vary widely across locations

Researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that can predict the onset of psychosis in people using brain scans. They said that the model, trained on brain scans from people globally, could be helpful in clinical settings, as earlier intervention typically leads to better outcomes with less negative impact on people's lives, even as most experiencing psychosis recover fully. Psychosis is a mental state characterised by being out of touch with reality and symptoms can include delusions, hallucinations or radical changes in behaviour and thinking. The condition has no single cause, but can be triggered by trauma, drug or alcohol use, or a genetic predisposition. "At most only 30 per cent of clinical high-risk individuals later have overt psychotic symptoms, while the remaining 70 per cent do not," said associate professor Shinsuke Koike from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the corresponding author of the study ...

The new imaging technique, known as correlated diffusion imaging (CDI), was developed by systems design engineering professor Alexander Wong at University of Waterloo

The study, in PLOS Medicine, measured drinking in "standard drinks" - 12 ounces of beer, five ounces of wine, or one-and-a-half ounces of hard liquor.

GE Healthcare expects demand for its devices to go up as healthcare becomes more accessible and is looking to train people who can operate these machines