1-Minute Healthcare News Today—May 1, 2023

The artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by experts at the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, the Institute of Cancer Research, London, and Imperial College London can determine whether abnormal growths found on CT scans are malignant. Read here.

According to a new study, 33 kids born in Canada between 2012 and 2021 were infected with HIV?during pregnancy or birth, even though the country has all the instruments necessary to prevent this from happening.? Read here.

Meanwhile, Cigarette smoking in the United States will reach an all-time low in 2022, but this is not good news. E-cigarette use increased to over 6% last year, up from approximately 4.5 percent the previous year. Read here.?

Doctors in southern Nevada are on high alert due to an unexplained increase in potentially fatal brain infections in children. According to researchers at the Southern Nevada Health District, there were 18 cases of kid brain abscesses last year - spaces in the brain that fills with pus and can be fatal if left untreated. Learn more here.

Lastly, according to a new study, exposure to air pollution can harm the heart within hours. It can immediately induce an abnormal pulse and is associated with cardiac arrhythmia, the most prevalent symptoms of which are atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter. Read here.