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Psychology & Psychiatry

Research highlights role of collaborative networks in solving complex health issues like suicide

As public health challenges like suicide and rising chronic illness rates continue to strain health care systems, new research from Indiana University suggests that the solution might lie in a more connected understanding ...

Health informatics

'Bias in, bias out': Study identifies bias in medical AI

In a new review, Yale researchers provide an in-depth analysis of how biases at different stages of AI development can lead to poor clinical outcomes and exacerbate health disparities. The authors say their results reflect ...

Health

Researchers fix critical mistakes in medical mobile apps

Potentially deadly mathematical errors are prevalent among mobile applications used in clinical and emergency room settings, but a team of researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Ying Wu College of Computing has ...

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.

Neuroscience

Neuroscientists release state-of-the-art spike-sorting software

How do researchers make sense of the mountains of data collected from recording the simultaneous activity of hundreds of neurons? Neuroscientists all over the world rely on Kilosort, software that enables them to tease apart ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Inducing labor with drug vaginally shows benefits in study

Labor induction with vaginal misoprostol during childbirth achieves vaginal delivery rates similar to the oral alternative while significantly reducing the need for oxytocin, the most commonly used labor-inducing drug, UT ...

Ophthalmology

As AI eye exams prove their worth, lessons for future tech emerge

Christian Espinoza, director of a Southern California drug-treatment provider, recently began employing a powerful new assistant: an artificial intelligence algorithm that can perform eye exams with pictures taken by a retinal ...

Health informatics

AI medical coding research adds to big picture

Much like the game of connect the dots, Megan McDougal's academic and professional career share points that have come together to form one big picture.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Using machine learning to track the evolution of COVID-19

Scientists have developed a machine-learning approach to track the evolution of SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and potentially other viruses, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

New electronic medical record tool helps clinicians diagnose mpox

Diagnosing infectious conditions can be challenging. Diagnosis is especially challenging for uncommon and emerging infectious diseases for which there's limited clinical experience. Nevertheless, successfully identifying ...

Health informatics

Large language models in health: Useful, but not a miracle cure

Imagine you're shopping online and talking to a helpful bot about buying some new shoes. That's the basic idea behind large language models (LLMs). LLMs are a type of artificial intelligence (AI) and they are gaining traction ...

Medical economics

Study underlines role of past injustices in medical mistrust

Black Americans living in Tuskegee, Alabama, closer to the location of the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, were much slower to get their COVID-19 vaccines compared to white neighbors, according to a new study by University ...