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Data show overall ED visit rate 47 visits per 100 people in 2022
In 2022, the emergency department visit rate was 47 visits per 100 people, according to an August data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics.
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Parkinson's & Movement disorders
What the trained eye cannot see: Detecting movement defects in early stage Parkinson's disease
A technique that uses videos and machine learning to quantify motor symptoms in early-stage Parkinson's disease could help reveal signs of the disease and other movement disorders earlier, which could lead to better treatment ...
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AI sperm checker enhances IVF success
Engineers have developed AI technology that accurately assesses the quality of live sperm in seconds, removing the need for invasive procedures that compromise sperm viability in IVF treatments.
Aug 15, 2024
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Study finds breast cancer screening attendance helps boost other cancer screenings
Offering self-sampling kits to women overdue for cervical cancer (CC) or colorectal cancer (CRC) screening when they attend breast cancer (BC) screening can result in increased screening participation, according to a study ...
Aug 15, 2024
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Leading AI models struggle to identify genetic conditions from patient-written descriptions, researchers find
National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have discovered that while artificial intelligence (AI) tools can make accurate diagnoses from textbook-like descriptions of genetic diseases, the tools are significantly less ...
Aug 14, 2024
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Swipe up! Health apps deliver real results en masse
In a new study in npj Digital Medicine, researchers synthesized data from 206,873 people across 47 studies, finding that digital health tools—like mobile apps, websites, and text messages—can significantly improve health ...
Aug 14, 2024
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Researchers find possible inaccuracies in crash-reported child passenger injuries
Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) found discrepancies between crash reports and hospital data that might paint an incomplete or inaccurate ...
Aug 14, 2024
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Algorithm achieves 98% accuracy in disease prediction via tongue color
A computer algorithm has achieved 98% accuracy in predicting different diseases by analyzing the color of the human tongue.
Aug 13, 2024
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Cardiovascular diseases recognized at an early stage via machine learning
How can diseases of the cardiovascular system be detected before symptoms appear? Researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) have found a way to track them down at an early stage.
Aug 13, 2024
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Smartphone app can effectively lower cholera risk
The seventh cholera pandemic, which began in 1961, has annually afflicted millions and claimed tens of thousands of lives. Recognized by the World Health Organization as the longest-lasting pandemic in history, cholera spreads ...
Aug 13, 2024
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New unsupervised domain adaptation framework enhances precision in medical image segmentation
Recently, a research team developed an unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) approach, the dual domain distribution disruption with semantics preservation (DDSP) framework, achieving high-precision cross-modality segmentation ...
Aug 13, 2024
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AI accurately diagnoses genetic condition from facial photographs
A Yale School of Medicine team reports in a new study that an artificial intelligence (AI) model was able to reliably diagnose people living with Marfan syndrome from a simple facial photograph.
Aug 12, 2024
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Study suggests heat caused over 47,000 deaths in Europe in 2023, the second highest burden of the last decade
More than 47,000 people died in Europe as a result of high temperatures in 2023, the warmest year on record globally and the second warmest in Europe. This is the estimate of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global ...
Aug 12, 2024
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Student's research on COVID-19 transmission leads to discovery of a major model gap
Scientists have long studied the spread of diseases, but the emergence of COVID-19 and its profound impact on society have underscored the critical need to understand where and how diseases spread.
Aug 12, 2024
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Q&A: Generative AI 'drift' and 'nondeterminism' inconsistences are important considerations in health care applications
Samuel (Sandy) Aronson, ALM, MA, executive director of IT and AI Solutions for Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine and senior director of IT and AI Solutions for the Accelerator for Clinical Transformation, is the ...
Aug 12, 2024
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Researchers outline promises, challenges of understanding AI for biological discovery
Machine learning is a powerful tool in computational biology, enabling the analysis of a wide range of biomedical data such as genomic sequences and biological imaging. But when researchers use machine learning in computational ...
Aug 9, 2024
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A new way to measure bipolar disorder: Focus on the 'spikes'
When Sarah Sperry, Ph.D., meets with her patients who have bipolar disorder, she asks them what aspect of their condition interferes with their lives the most.
Aug 9, 2024
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Doctors more likely to use negative language describing Black and Hispanic patients in electronic health records
A new study of patients' electronic health records found that doctors were more likely to use negative words in describing visits with Black and Hispanic patients than white patients, something that could result in bias toward ...
Aug 9, 2024
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Information scientists develop method to detect doping cases using AI
Thousands of athletes are currently competing for medals at the Olympic Games in Paris. And in some cases, questions will be asked about whether medals were won fairly or whether doping was involved. Software developed by ...
Aug 9, 2024
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CDC presents provisional mortality data for 2023 in the United States
In 2023, there was a provisional total of 3,090,582 deaths in the United States, according to research published in the Aug. 8 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Aug 9, 2024
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2002 to 2021 saw decline, followed by increase in stroke death rates
After declines in stroke death rates between 2002 and 2012, rates increased among men and women aged 45 to 64 years between 2012 and 2021, according to an August data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Aug 9, 2024
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Computer simulations clarify how breast cancer spreads
Using a combination of computer simulations and experimental studies, a team of researchers is uncovering vital clues into how breast cancer cells invade breast tissue.
Aug 8, 2024
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Increasing clinicians' knowledge about climate change's impact on health and health care sustainability
An educational program emphasizing the relationship that climate change has with health and health care environmental sustainability was well-received by physicians, according to a recent survey-based study published in JAMA ...
Aug 8, 2024
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Novel AI model may enhance health data interoperability
An AI model developed by Northwestern Medicine investigators improved the transformation of EHR data into standardized health resources more efficiently than current methods, according to a recent study published in the journal ...
Aug 8, 2024
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A smartphone health care application is more effective for weight loss among non-walkers
Obesity, a significant risk factor for non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, poses a considerable global public health challenge. Among the various strategies to combat obesity, weight-loss ...
Aug 8, 2024
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