Pakistan Health News API

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            "title": "Immersive competence as a source of bias in virtual reality clinical assessment",
            "description": "Virtual reality (VR) is increasingly used for assessment in educational and clinical settings. However, users’ immersive competence (IC)—the ability to navigate and operate VR systems—may introduce bias unrelated to clinical skills or patient functioning. In this randomized controlled trial, 88 medical students received either general IC training, general+specific IC training, or no structured training before completing a VR-based assessment scenario. Multimodal data were collected, including electrodermal activity, cognitive-load ratings, procedural efficiency, and usability barriers. Specific IC training improved performance compared with control (28.3% ± 10.3% vs. 21.2% ± 10.8%, p = 0.010, d = 0.67), moderated by procedural efficiency and increased cognitive load. Prior 3D experience did not predict performance in the control group, likely due to a floor effect, but did in the specific training group. These findings indicate that IC is a causal, modifiable factor in VR-based assessments and should be considered to ensure fair and valid evaluations.",
            "content": "Liu, J. Y. W. et al. The effects of immersive virtual reality applications on enhancing the learning outcomes of undergraduate health care students: systematic review with meta-synthesis. J. Med. Internet Res. 25, e39989 (2023).\nCushnan, J., McCaffer... [13024 chars]",
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            "description": "The reports of the two deaths of a man and a woman were made to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).",
            "content": "Two deaths reported to drug watchdog over potential link to weight-loss jabs\n24 minutes ago\nKathryn Torneyand\nCiarán McCauley ,BBC News NI\nThe deaths of two people in Northern Ireland potentially linked to weight-loss injections have been reported to... [6349 chars]",
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            "title": "Cancer death rate in Britain down by almost a third since 1980s",
            "description": "Huge improvements in prevention, diagnosis and treatment have driven the fall, Cancer Research UK says",
            "content": "The rate of people dying from cancer in the UK has fallen by almost a third since the 1980s amid seismic progress in prevention, diagnosis and treatment, a report has found.\nAbout 247 in every 100,000 people die from cancer each year, a 29% drop from... [3247 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/09/cancer-death-rate-fall-britain-report",
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