by University of Michigan Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain AI models in health care are a double-edged sword, with models improving diagnostic decisions for some demographics, but worsening decisions for others when the model has absorbed biased medical data. Given the very real life and death risks of clinical decision-making, researchers and policymakers are taking steps to...
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What Can Clinicians Do to Treat Patients With Vitiligo?
Caroline Guignot November 06, 2023 International vitiligo experts have published new recommendations in two parts — one dedicated to management algorithms, the other to specific treatment recommendations — to update the text from 2013. These recommendations are aimed at dermatologists and primary care providers and propose relatively simple algorithms. Julien Seneschal, MD, PhD, professor of dermatology at...
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New pocket-sized device for clinicians could spot infected wounds faster
by Frontiers Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainIt’s notoriously difficult for doctors to identify a wound that is becoming infected. Clinical signs and symptoms are imprecise and methods of identifying bacteria can be time-consuming and inaccessible, so a diagnosis can be subjective and dependent on clinician experience. But infection can stall healing or spread into the body...
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Should clinicians reconsider standard therapy for gout?
WILEY Gout occurs when urate crystals accumulate in the joints, and xanthine oxidase inhibitors such as febuxostat are a mainstay of therapy to help reduce blood urate levels in affected patients. A recent clinical trial published in Arthritis & Rheumatology has found that low doses of a less commonly used drug called benzbromarone may be a better...
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Women ‘camouflaging’ autistic traits suffer severe mental health challenges, study finds
by Christie Allen, Brigham Young University In the United States, girls represent only about 20% of autism diagnoses. While boys may simply be more likely to have autism than girls, mental health professionals suspect that girls are also more adroit at suppressing autistic traits, which could prevent their autism from being diagnosed, if it is...
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A new database pools what scientists know about the BRCA genes
A sweeping new resource gives researchers a chance to comb through data on thousands of variants in two genes — BRCA1 and BRCA2 — to understand how they shape cancer risk. The database, dubbed the BRCA Exchange, is the product of a five-year project funded by the National Cancer Institute. Some variants in the BRCA...