If you get a runny nose after mealtime, here’s what to know. BY MADELEINE HAASEMeet the Experts: Meha Fox, M.D., assistant professor in the department of otolaryngology at Baylor College of Medicine; David A. Gudis, M.D., chief of rhinology and anterior skull base surgery at Columbia University Irving Medical Center; Benjamin Tweel, M.D., medical director...
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DOCTORS ALARMED BY YOUNG PEOPLE GETTING CANCER AT UNPRECEDENTED RATES
“THE PATIENTS ARE GETTING YOUNGER.”CANCERPeople below the age of 50 are getting cancer more than ever before — and doctors are stumped as to why. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the shocking 2020 death of beloved actor Chadwick Boseman, who died of colorectal cancer at only 43 years old, seemed to wake the public...
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“The Ultimate Second Opinion”: AI Just as Good as Doctors at Analysing X-rays
AI can analyse X-rays and diagnose medical issues just as, or more, accurately than doctors, a new study led by the University of Warwick has found.X-ray analysis – illustrative artistic rendering. The AI, which has been trained on 2.8 million historic chest X-rays from over 1.5 million patients, scans X-Rays for 37 possible conditions. It...
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AI scope hunts down colon polyps, aiding less experienced doctors
By Paul McClure Researchers found that colonoscopy assisted by AI improved the detection of polyps by inexperienced doctorsCUHK/CU Medicine Researchers have found that inexperienced doctors performing AI-assisted colonoscopies significantly improved their detection of polyps. Using AI with this diagnostic tool could lower the chances of missing these potential precursors to colorectal cancer. The addition of AI...
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AI transformation of medicine: Why doctors are not prepared
by University of Maryland School of Medicine Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT find their way into everyday use, physicians will start to see these tools incorporated into their clinical practice to help them make important decisions on diagnosis and treatment of common medical conditions. These tools, called clinical decision support (CDS)...
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Cigna Accused of Using AI, Not Doctors, to Deny Claims: Lawsuit
Steph Weber August 04, 2023 A new lawsuit alleges that Cigna uses artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to inappropriately deny “hundreds or thousands” of claims at a time, bypassing legal requirements to complete individual claim reviews and forcing providers to bill patients in full. In a complaint filed last week in California’s eastern district court, plaintiffs and Cigna...
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DOCTORS CLAIM TO HAVE DISCOVERED HOW TO REVERSE CELL AGING
A team of scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology says it’s found a way that to reverse the natural aging of immune system cells — and potentially make the elderly far more resistant to COVID-19 and other infections. The researchers identified the molecular pathway that the human body uses to create B cells, The...
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Doctors get plenty of advice on starting treatment; this could help them know when to stop
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Medical experts have worked for decades to improve the chances that patients will get the scans, routine tests and medicines that can do them the most good – and avoid the ones that won’t help them at all. But in the push toward evidence-based medicine, a new study says,...
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Doctors urged to reconsider controversial acne drug
UC Riverside study calls for ‘interdisciplinary approach between psychology and dermatology for optimal acne treatment’ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – RIVERSIDE Acne treatment including the highly effective acne medication isotretinoin should be made more readily available despite reports of its association with depression and teen suicide. That’s the implication of a study just published in the...
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Seeing the same doctor is a matter of life and death
A ground-breaking study has concluded that patients who see the same doctor over time have lower death rates. Credit: CC0 Public Domain The study, a collaboration between St Leonard’s Practice in Exeter and the University of Exeter Medical School, is published today in BMJ Open. It is the first ever systematic review of the relationship between death rates and continuity of care—seeing...
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