Last update:

Health informatics news

Cardiology

Stroke guidelines updated, with focus on women and GLP-1s

Women, especially those who had high blood pressure during pregnancy or entered menopause before age 45, are among those with a greater risk for stroke.

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Network theory insights lead to a mathematical representation of Parkinson's disease

Neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease, can be thought of as arising from malfunctions in the network of neuronal agglomerates in the brain. It is therefore often useful to apply insights from a branch of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Global research team develops H5N1 detection kit to tackle avian flu

The Diagnostics Development Hub (DxD Hub), a national platform hosted by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, in collaboration with the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

AI model can diagnose depression via speech and brain neural activity

Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses. As many as 280 million people worldwide are affected by this disease, which is why researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) have developed an artificial intelligence ...

Oncology & Cancer

AI enhances early detection of pancreatic cysts

When it comes to early detection of silent but deadly diseases like pancreatic cancer, finding it early and predicting disease aggressiveness are critical for increasing long-term survival.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Students develop AI model for middle ear disease detection

Understanding the middle ear is essential—not only for hearing but also for balance and quality of life. According to the National Institutes of Health, in the U.S., one in eight adults has hearing loss, and nearly 28% ...

Radiology & Imaging

Radiologists could soon be using AI to detect brain tumors

A paper titled "Deep Learning and Transfer Learning for Brain Tumor Detection and Classification" published in Biology Methods and Protocols shows that scientists can train artificial intelligence (AI) models to distinguish ...

Ophthalmology

AI model to improve clinical trial recruitment for eye disease

A new artificial intelligence (AI) system that could significantly reduce the time and cost required to recruit clinical trial patients for an advanced form of age-related vision loss has been developed by a team led by UCL ...

Oncology & Cancer

Improving advanced care planning for late-stage cancer

Multilevel care interventions improved clinician–documented advanced care planning (ACP) compared with a clinician-level intervention alone for patients with genitourinary cancer, according to findings published in JAMA ...

Medical economics

Unlocking innovation secrets in the smart medical industry

Smart medical is the product of the deep integration of the health care service industry and information technology. With the advent of new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data and ...

Health informatics

2021 to 2022 saw decrease in telemedicine use in past 12 months

From 2021 to 2022, there was a decrease in the percentage of adults who used telemedicine in the past 12 months, according to the June 20 National Vital Statistics Reports, a publication from the National Center for Health ...

Oncology & Cancer

Study suggests AI may soon be able to detect cancer

A new paper in Biology Methods & Protocols indicates that it may soon be possible for doctors to use artificial intelligence (AI) to detect and diagnose cancer in patients, allowing for earlier treatment. Cancer remains one ...

Oncology & Cancer

Deep learning shows promise for soft tissue sarcoma management

Soft tissue sarcomas (STSs) represent a diverse group of tumors that pose significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. In a recent review published in the journal Meta-Radiology, a team of researchers from The Second ...

Health informatics

US government revises race, ethnicity data collection standards

The latest issue of the journal Health Equity features a pivotal roundtable discussion titled "Implications and Insights on Federal Revisions to Race and Ethnicity Collection." This roundtable assembles leading experts to ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Customizable AI tool helps pathologists identify diseased cells

It's something nearly any pathologist would welcome: a personally trained assistant that can help them identify abnormal cells in blood samples and biopsies so they can more quickly and accurately diagnose cancer or other ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Study shows AI can predict anxiety levels with picture tasks

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati developed a new form of artificial intelligence that uses a short picture rating task and a small set of contextual variables to predict whether someone is experiencing anxiety.

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

Blood test could predict Parkinson's seven years before symptoms

A team of researchers, led by scientists at UCL and University Medical Center Goettingen, has developed a simple blood test that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict Parkinson's up to seven years before the onset ...

Parkinson's & Movement disorders

AI helps uncover early cell changes in ALS progression

New research from the University of St Andrews and the University of Copenhagen has harnessed the power of AI to generate new insights into the progression of ALS.