By Paul McClure Researchers have been able to accurately diagnose autism in children using AI to screen retinal photographsDepositphotos Researchers have taken photographs of children’s retinas and screened them using a deep learning AI algorithm to diagnose autism with 100% accuracy. The findings support using AI as an objective screening tool for early diagnosis, especially when...
Sara Novak One of the biggest challenges facing clinicians who treat long COVID is a lack of consensus when it comes to recognizing and diagnosing the condition. But a new study suggests testing for certain biomarkers may identify long COVID with accuracy approaching 80%. Effective diagnostic testing would be a game-changer in the long COVID...
by American College of Physicians Credit: CC0 Public Domain The latest clinical practice guideline from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization offers guidance for the prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) in chronic kidney disease (CKD). The guideline is a targeted update to 2018 recommendations on the same topic and...
By Andy Miller There are 80 different autoimmune diseases, affecting up to 50 million Americans. After years of debilitating bouts of fatigue, Beth VanOrden finally thought she had an answer to her problems in 2016 when she was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune disorder. For her and millions of other Americans, that’s the most...
by University of Arizona Lalitha Madhavan, MD, PhD, and her research team used induced pluripotent stem cell technology to reprogram adult skin cells into brain cells to study Parkinson’s disease. Credit: University of Arizona Health Sciences A study published in Progress in Neurobiology and led by researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson,...
by The Francis Crick Institute Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Aalborg University in Copenhagen have shown that changes can be detected in blood tests up to eight years before a diagnosis of Crohn’s disease and up to three years before a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis. This means the beginnings of...
by University of Cambridge Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainResearchers have developed a new way of improving diagnosis of bipolar disorder that uses a simple blood test to identify biomarkers associated with the condition. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used a combination of an online psychiatric assessment and a blood test to diagnose patients with bipolar...
Sue Hughes October 16, 2023 The issue of earlier classification of medical conditions — known as “diagnosis creep” — is leading to many patients becoming eligible for treatments at earlier stages in their disease course, without those treatments having been validated in those particular groups. This concern has been highlighted recently in the atrial fibrillation (AF) field,...
By Paul McClure July 19, 2023 Researchers have found three new prostate cancer biomarkers that will assist pathologists to accurately grade the disease’s severity Depositphotos Researchers have identified three new prostate cancer biomarkers that improve the visibility of cancer cells used by pathologists to grade the disease’s severity. The novel technique could assist in determining...
Miriam E. Tucker June 15, 2023 CHICAGO – Use of a ratio of vitamin D metabolites to assess vitamin D status rather than total 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] level may provide a better index of individual susceptibility to bone damage due to deficiency, new research suggests. The study supports previous data suggesting that a ratio cut-off of greater than 100...
