August 15, 2018
(Kaiser Health News) – Papers in medical journals go through rigorous peer review and meticulous data analysis. Yet many of these articles are missing a key piece of information: the financial ties of the authors. Nearly two-thirds of the 100 … Read More
August 15, 2018
(Manged Care Magazine) – Scientists have created a powerful new tool to calculate a person’s inherited risks for heart disease, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, chronic inflammatory bowel disease, and atrial fibrillation. By surveying changes in DNA at 6.6 million … Read More
August 15, 2018
(UPI) – Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence method that can identify a range of acute neurological illnesses in CT scans within a few seconds, when time is essential in assessing the life-threatening conditions. Conditions such as stroke, hemorrhage and … Read More
August 15, 2018
(BBC) – Artificial intelligence can diagnose eye disease as accurately as some leading experts, research suggests. A study by Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and the Google company DeepMind found that a machine could learn to read complex eye scans … Read More
August 15, 2018
(CNN) – While the details of Alyssa’s case are extraordinary — the Grandma Betty trick, the escape from the hospital with police on their heels — the core of her story is not uncommon in many ways, according to patient … Read More
August 15, 2018
(Nature) – Forty years ago, the UK city of Birmingham was in a panic. A medical photographer called Janet Parker was admitted to hospital on 11 August 1978, her body riddled with lesion and scars. She passed away a month … Read More
August 14, 2018
(CNN) – An app designed to track fertility and prevent pregnancy in women 18 and older is the first to win US Food and Drug Administration approval to be marketed as a contraceptive, the agency announced Friday. The Natural Cycles … Read More
August 14, 2018
(Scientific American) – In theory,All of Us could provide the deepest, most representative medical research sample to date. Studies based on this diverse pool could help pave the way for precision medicine to become the new norm in health care. … Read More
August 14, 2018
(The Atlantic) – After a while, the true-life horror stories women tell about their struggles to get reproductive health care start to bleed together. They almost always feature some variation on the same character: the doctor who waves a hand … Read More
August 14, 2018
(Nature) – PDX models are not perfect, however — and scientists are beginning to recognize their shortcomings and complexities. The tumours can diverge from the original sample, for example, and the models cannot be used to test immunotherapies. Now, biologists … Read More
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