Lauren Chadwick

Health news

Breast screenings using AI boost cancer detection by 20%, study finds

Preliminary results from a Swedish trial showed that artificial intelligence (AI) is helping radiologists reduce their workload and detect more cases.

02/08/2023

Tech News

Musk’s X threatens nonprofit over Twitter hate speech research

A lawyer for Elon Musk’s X Corp. threatened independent researchers who have studied disinformation and hate speech on Twitter.

01/08/2023

Health news

Only one EU country doing enough to help people stop smoking, WHO says

“Tobacco use continues to be one of the biggest public health threats,” said a World Health Organization official.

31/07/2023

Health news

Short bursts of physical activity every day could reduce cancer risk

Just a few minutes of vigorous activity each day can reduce the risk of some cancers by up to 32 per cent, according to new research.

31/07/2023

Tech News

Social media feed changes shapes content but not polarisation - study

Researchers tweaked the social media algorithms for tens of thousands of consenting users to see if it impacted their political views during the 2020 US election.

28/07/2023

Mobility

Inventive or stupid? Road maze stumps drivers in French village

In the village of Bauné, drivers confronted a series of crisscrossed white road lines at a main intersection this month, which the mayor argues has made them slow down.

26/07/2023

Tech News

Mastodon has child sexual abuse content problem, researchers say

In just two days, researchers at Stanford University found hundreds of posts on Mastodon with child sexual abuse content.

25/07/2023

Health news

‘Daily struggle’ as French hospitals and patients rush to find doctors

For decades, France capped the number of medical students. Now there are fewer doctors and staff shortages in hospitals.

29/06/2023

Health news

'We're still home sick': 36 million in Europe live with long COVID

Around 36 million people in Europe and Central Asia may be experiencing symptoms of long COVID, according to new estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO).

28/06/2023

Health news

US issues warning after reporting first local malaria cases in decades

European health officials warned last week that warming temperatures are creating “more favourable conditions” for the spread of invasive mosquito species that can carry diseases.

27/06/2023

Health news

1.3 billion could suffer from diabetes by 2050 in ‘global crisis’

Structural racism and global inequalities are also accelerating soaring rates of diabetes disease, illness and death, researchers said.

23/06/2023

Health news

Eating disorders rise among teenage girls post-COVID, new study finds

A UK analysis of health records found a large rise in eating disorders and self-harm among teenage girls, echoing similar findings in other European countries.

21/06/2023

Tech News

Consumer groups urge EU countries to urgently investigate AI

As consumer groups call on authorities to urgently investigate generative AI, a new report from a Norwegian consumer organisation described the risks of AI technology.

20/06/2023

Health news

Gas stoves can emit chemical linked to blood cancers, study finds

Home cookers raise levels of benzene, a chemical linked to a risk of cancers of the blood cells, to well above "health benchmarks".

19/06/2023

Work

More than half of French employers do not plan on using AI

Around 31% of French employers already use the technology in the workplace.

16/06/2023

Tech News

Banning Huawei and ZTE from 5G networks 'justified', EU says

European Commissioner Thierry Breton said that more EU member states needed to implement the bloc's cybersecurity guidelines.

15/06/2023

Health news

Do Europe's blood donation policies still refer to sexual orientation?

On World Blood Donor Day, Euronews looks at the differences in blood donation policies across the European Union.

14/06/2023

Health news

Poland to look into abortion guidelines after pregnant woman's death

The 33-year-old from Poland, which has some of the strictest abortion rules, died of sepsis after the hospital waited for the foetus to die.

12/06/2023

Europe News

Europeans prefer neutrality in possible US-China conflict - survey

Europeans view China as a strategic partner more than a rival, a new European Council on Foreign Relations survey shows.

07/06/2023

Europe Decoded

Could crisis force European-wide issues into EU election campaigns?

Since 2019, the European Union has faced multiple crises -- does that mean that EU-wide issues will dominate the 2024 European election campaigns?

06/06/2023