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Image from Impala AI homepage.    From Scrolla AllAfrica : AI is helping nurses in Malawi spot danger before sick babies and children become critically ill. Malawi has adopted IMPALA, an AI-powered patient monitoring system used in children’s wards. The system uses machine learning to predict when a patient’s condition may get worse up to three hours before it becomes critical. It can also send alerts before a child’s health drops badly, Connecting Africa reported. IMPALA was developed by GOAL 3, a Dutch social enterprise working in health technology. It is being used at Mangochi Hospital, Malamulo Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, among others. During 2023/2024, two hospitals using IMPALA recorded between 40% and 51% fewer deaths than in 2022/2023, before the system was introduced. Blessings Juma, head of the children’s ward at Mangochi District Hospital, told El Pais that before IMPALA, the hospital could record four deaths in a week to 15 days. Now...

  We had this on sale here.                         From The New Yorker : A few months ago, while watching Instagram stories, I came across a provocative advertisement. A man with scruffy brown hair said, “What if I told you alcohol is not actually bad for you?” He explained that our livers convert alcohol into acetaldehyde, a toxic molecule that he described as a main cause of hangovers. His brief chemistry lesson, which used glass beakers filled with colorful liquids as props, was accompanied by a link to a product: a supplement that promised to neutralize acetaldehyde more quickly than my body could on its own. Eliminating acetaldehyde, the ad claimed, would help conquer hangovers. One reviewer of the supplement said that she’d drunk more than five glasses of wine and felt fine the next day. I usually have a strong aversion to the science-y veneer of supplement marketing, yet I stuck with the ad to the end...

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