By STACY LIBERATORE Facebook claims to have designed software capable of predicting if a coronavirus patient’s health will deteriorate or will need oxygen just by scanning their chest X-rays. Working with New York University (NYU), the social media firm says the system can calculate such developments four days. Together they have built three machine-learning models to assist doctors...
by Cardiff University A new diagnostic test for peritonitis underpinned by Cardiff University-led research has been used for the time in patients. The Periplex test was trialled in more than 100 patients at the Royal Free Hospital in London in an independent study led by Dr. Cate Goodlad, with “promising” results that suggest it could...
Tocilizumab, marketed as Actemra, is taken by patients with rheumatoid arthritis It reduces inflammation, which is considered a complication of COVID-19 It causes lung damage and organ failure, eventually death in most cases Chinese doctors gave it to 20 patients during the peak of the countries epidemic Nineteen were discharged within 14 days despite being...
