Christina Szalinski November 26, 2024 2233 Added to Email Alert When a patient signs on to a telehealth portal, there’s little more a provider can do than ask questions. But a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology could allow providers to get feedback about the patient’s blood pressure and diabetes risk just from a video call...
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How Metals Affect the Brain
F. Perry Wilson, MD, MSCE DISCLOSURES | December 02, 2024 3241 Welcome to Impact Factor, your weekly dose of commentary on a new medical study. I’m Dr F. Perry Wilson from the Yale School of Medicine. It has always amazed me that our bodies require these tiny amounts of incredibly rare substances to function. Sure, we need oxygen....
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DOGS SNIFF OUT COVID MORE EFFECTIVELY THAN TESTS
AUGUST 21ST, 2023POSTED BY SONIA FERNANDEZ-UCSB (Credit: Getty Images) SHARE THIS ARTICLE You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. TAGS UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA Dogs can be a faster, more precise, less expensive—not to mention friendlier—method of detecting COVID-19 than even our best current technology, a new review shows. A...
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Antipsychotic medications don’t always work the way they’re supposed to
Sixty-eight per cent of nursing home residents who used antipsychotics had more behavioural issues than they did pre-medicationPeer-Reviewed Publication University of Waterloo A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo analyzed data from nearly 500,000 Canadian patients who lived in nursing homes across Canada between 2000 and 2022. It found that residents who were given...
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Study shows driving decision aid can help older adults with the difficult decision for when to stop driving
by Julia Milzer, CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Deciding when to stop driving can be challenging for older adults and their families. A study published today in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society shows that using a decision aid tool can be beneficial and help older adults when faced with this difficult decision. In a randomized clinical...
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Women pay for AI to boost mammogram findings
by Radiological Society of North America AI enhanced screening mammography. Credit: Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and DeepHealth More than a third of women across 10 health care practices chose to enroll in a self-pay, artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced breast cancer screening program, and the women who enrolled were 21% more likely to have cancer detected,...
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Study reveals lasting effects of common herbicide on brain health
by Richard Harth, Arizona State University Glyphosate, one of the most widely used herbicides, is sprayed on crops worldwide. A new study in mice suggests glyphosate can accumulate in the brain, causing damaging effects linked with Alzheimer’s disease. Credit: Jason Drees The human brain is an incredibly adaptable organ, often able to heal itself even from...
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AI-enabled analysis of images meant to catch one disease can reveal others
by David March, NYU Langone Health Credit: CC0 Public Domain With the help of an AI tool, computed tomography (CT) scans taken originally to look for tumors or bleeding or infections, also revealed calcium buildup in arteries, a sign of worsening cardiovascular disease. This is the result of a new study led by researchers at NYU...
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Symptom pattern of Meniere’s disease often changes over time, study finds
by Lori Solomon Meniere’s disease (MD) shows a complex disease course, with initial symptoms decreasing and others persisting and worsening over time, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in Frontiers in Neurology. Ilmari Pyykko, M.D., from Tampere University in Finland, and colleagues analyzed the symptom profile of MD with a focus on the cessation of episodic...
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Ultrasound-driven transformation of doxorubicin for targeted cancer cell killing
Sponsored Content by Scintica Instrumentation Inc.Reviewed by Olivia FrostDec 4 2024 According to the National Cancer Institute at the NIH, roughly 40.5 % of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. γ-eye. Image Credit: Scintica Instrumentation Inc. Depending on the type and stage of cancer, chemotherapy is a popular therapeutic option for...