by American Institute of Physics Dr. Samantha Kleindienst Robler taking a photo of an ear (not a patient) using a telemedicine cart. Credit: Reba Lean According to the World Health Organization, 1.6 billion people across the globe are living with hearing loss. Much of that is preventable, stemming from excessive noise, untreated ear infections, and...
Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi explores how hidden biases in medical data could compromise artificial intelligence approaches. While working toward her dissertation in computer science at MIT, Marzyeh Ghassemi wrote several papers on how machine-learning techniques from artificial intelligence could be applied to clinical data in order to predict patient outcomes. “It wasn’t until the end of my PhD work...
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH PHILADELPHIA – Patients with colon cancer enrolled in the U.S. military’s universal health care system experienced improved survival compared with patients in the general population, according to results published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “Colorectal cancer has the third-highest death rate...
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION DALLAS, April 6, 2021 — A tsunami of chronic health conditions as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, especially cardiometabolic disease, may produce an enormous wave of death and disability that demands immediate, comprehensive strategies. In addition, COVID-19 has disrupted cardiovascular science and medicine, yet it presents opportunities to transform and create...
Advances in 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, are capturing attention in the health care field because of their potential to improve treatment for certain medical conditions. A radiologist, for instance, might create an exact replica of a patient’s spine to help plan a surgery; a dentist could scan a broken tooth to make a...
Study results indicate ibuprofen is also an effective and safe option for fracture pain UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA SUMIT GUPTA, MD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE EXAMINES A PEDIATRIC PATIENT DURING A CLINIC APPOINTMENT. view more CREDIT: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI HEALTH CARE Doctors have traditionally avoided prescribing nonsteroidal...
Fear avoidance, pain medication use, and treatment expectations impact response to nonpharmaceutical treatments to relieve chronic low back pain BOSTON – New research shows that people with chronic low back pain (cLBP) have better results from yoga and physical therapy compared to reading evidence-based self-help materials. While this finding was consistent across many patient characteristics,...
MAY 6TH, 2020 POSTED BY KARA GAVIN-U. MICHIGAN “Anecdotally, we hear of more people taking Uber or a Lyft, or having someone drive them, to the emergency room to avoid an ambulance bill. But if you truly need an ambulance, concerns about cost should not get in the way,” says Karan Chhabra. (Credit: Getty Images)...
by Tom Murphy In this file photo from May 2, 2019, Cadet Cheyenne Quilter works with a virtual reality character named “Ellie” at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making...
A new Northwestern Medicine study was the first to directly compare the quality and experience of outpatient care between adults with or without primary care. It found that Americans with primary care received significantly more high-value healthcare—such as recommended cancer screenings and flu shots—and reported better patient experience and overall healthcare access, compared to those...
