Medical research
African-led clinical research essential to tackling the continent's health care challenges, says expert
Africa is experiencing unprecedented growth in terms of both population and economic transformation.
Apr 16, 2024
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News tagged with researchers
Oncology & Cancer
Q&A: When will patients see personalized cancer vaccines?
Catherine Wu has been a pioneer in a promising approach to fight cancer: vaccines that target specific immune-stimulating molecules, known as immunogenic peptides, generated by the distinct genetic mutations of any individual ...
Apr 16, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Using machine learning to identify patients with cancer that would benefit from immunotherapy
A new study examines the development of two machine learning models to classify the immunophenotype of a cancer specimen.
Apr 16, 2024
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Health informatics
New guidelines reflect growing use of AI in health care research
The widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical decision-making tools has led to an update of the TRIPOD guidelines for reporting clinical prediction models. The new TRIPOD+AI guidelines are launched in the ...
Apr 16, 2024
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Overweight & Obesity
Using screens before bedtime and going to bed late associated with increased risk of childhood obesity: Study
Going to bed later than 10.00 p.m. and using screens (tablets, mobiles, computers, television, etc.) for more than thirty minutes before bedtime is associated with an increased risk of obesity and reduced adherence to the ...
Apr 15, 2024
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Cardiology
Remote monitoring of heart attack patients found to reduce hospital readmissions
Remote monitoring of patients who had recently had a heart attack was found to have a significant effect on readmissions to hospital, in research carried out at Imperial College London with patients at Imperial College Healthcare ...
Apr 15, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
AACR: At-home HPV testing boosts cervical cancer screening participation
Mailed at-home self-sampling for human papillomavirus (HPV) testing increases cervical cancer screening participation in underscreened populations by almost threefold, according to a study presented at the annual meeting ...
Apr 13, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists uncover a missing link between poor diet and higher cancer risk
A research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has unearthed new findings that may help explain the connection between cancer risk and poor diet, as well as common diseases like diabetes, which arise from ...
Apr 12, 2024
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Radiology & Imaging
New AI method captures uncertainty in medical images
In biomedicine, segmentation involves annotating pixels from an important structure in a medical image, like an organ or cell. Artificial intelligence models can help clinicians by highlighting pixels that may show signs ...
Apr 11, 2024
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Artificial intelligence can help people feel heard, study finds
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that AI-generated messages made recipients feel more "heard" than messages generated by untrained humans, and that AI was better at detecting ...
Apr 11, 2024
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