Data collection changes key to understanding maternal mortality trends in the US, new study shows
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A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford, published today (28 April) in JAMA Pediatrics, offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first time, the study disentangles genuine changes in health outcomes from shifts caused by how deaths are recorded. Nevertheless, the study confirms the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal death rates for women of all racial and ethnic groups.
Matthew Sacchet, PhD, Director of the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is senior author of a paper in Clinical Psychological Science, “Risk Factors for Emergence of Sudden Unusual Mental or Somatic Experiences and Subsequent Suffering.”
Computer scientists at the University of Bath in the UK have reprogrammed a Roomba to perform four new tasks, showcasing how domestic robots can be harnessed during their regular downtime to make our lives easier. The team also proposes 100 additional ways these devices could be put to work when they would otherwise be inactive.
Carnegie Mellon University and Seoul National University (SNU) have announced a new collaboration to advance human-centered artificial intelligence research that prioritizes human well-being, accessibility and social responsibility.
The SNU-CMU Human-Centered AI Research Center (HCAI) aims to pioneer innovative AI solutions by combining interdisciplinary expertise in human-centered design. CMU and SNU have four joint research projects in the works for 2025. Each project brings together interdisciplinary teams of faculty and students from both institutions to advance ethical, people-centered AI. These projects explore key challenges in AI, including: How AI can support teamwork in programming; enhancing interactive problem-solving; detecting societal bias in vision-language models, and assisting older adults through socially intelligent agents.