Repetitive hits to the head may lead to lasting brain injuries. Jeff Bazarian of Emergency Medicine is leading a new multi-site research project that will monitor female soccer players and male football players to understand the long-term impact of repetitive head hits. These repetitive head hits generally present as asymptomatic but can lead to a growing injury. Researchers aim to discover ways to detect, prevent injury and treat repetitive head hits.

University of California, Merced Professor Jeff Yoshimi says crowdsourcing millions of video gamers in the battle against cancer can accelerate research against a disease that claims 600,000 U.S. lives a year. His new book, "Gaming Cancer," is a roadmap for creating high-quality games that double as "intution bridges" that, in concert with AI, can help clinical scientists solve the disease's many mysteries.

According to new U of T Scarborough research, artificial intelligence (AI) can create empathetic responses more reliably and consistently than humans, even when compared to professionals whose job relies on empathizing with those in need. 

Two-thirds of people with post-COVID-19 syndrome have persistent, objective symptoms – including reduced physical exercise capacity and reduced cognitive test performances – for a year or more, with no major changes in symptom clusters during the second year of their illness, according to a new study published January 23^rd in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Winfried Kern of Freiburg University, Germany, and colleagues.