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Medications

New web portal empowers drug discovery, systems-level analysis of critical kinase-substrate interactions

Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have introduced KiNet, an interactive web portal designed to explore kinase-substrate interactions in human cellular systems. These interactions play a vital role ...

Neuroscience

Video streaming from ambulance can be life-changing for acute stroke patients

When someone suffers a stroke, time and choice of treatment are critical factors. The outcome largely depends on how quickly the person receives the right care. If the ambulance staff can consult a stroke specialist via video ...

Ophthalmology

Researchers use AI to help people see more clearly

Myopia, also known as nearsightedness, is on the rise, especially among children. Experts predict that by the year 2050, myopia will affect approximately 50% of the world's population. Researchers believe that an increase ...

Radiology & Imaging

AI-guided imaging system improves radiology precision

Our imagination for artificial intelligence is expansive and ambitious. While there are plenty of dystopian tropes, pop culture is full of hopeful examples of what we believe artificial intelligence could bring to us, ranging ...

Health informatics

Study finds AI language models write good doctor's letters

Generative AI should be able to write usable doctor's letters and thus potentially speed up medical documentation, according to a study by the University Medical Center Freiburg. Around 93% of the AI-generated reports could ...

Pediatrics

Feet first: AI reveals how infants connect with their world

Recent advances in computing and artificial intelligence, along with insights into infant learning, suggest that machine and deep learning techniques can help us study how infants transition from random exploratory movements ...

Radiology & Imaging

ChatGPT shows human-level assessment of brain tumor MRI reports

As artificial intelligence advances, its uses and capabilities in real-world applications continue to reach new heights that may even surpass human expertise. In the field of radiology, where a correct diagnosis is crucial ...

Sports medicine & Kinesiology

Combining AI and thermal video offers a new window into weightlifting

Researchers have developed a new method that combines video from thermal cameras with AI-based digital processing to enhance weightlifting training. By providing data-driven insights that enable targeted training and recovery ...

Radiology & Imaging

Better MRI videos thanks to new machine learning method

Using smartly trained neural networks, researchers at TU Graz have succeeded in generating precise real-time images of the beating heart from just a few MRI measurement data. Other MRI applications can also be accelerated ...

Health informatics

AI may enhance patient safety, say researchers

Generative artificial intelligence (genAI) uses hundreds of millions, sometimes billions, of data points to train itself to produce realistic and innovative outputs that can mimic human-created content. Its applications include ...

Oncology & Cancer

Saving time with AI-generated treatment plans for breast cancer

Drawing in the organs of individual breast cancer patients and then creating precise radiation plans appears to be faster by using artificial intelligence (AI) models. That way, it remains just as reliable and accurate. It ...

Radiology & Imaging

How X/Twitter trained an AI tool for pathologists

The most impressive uses of artificial intelligence rely on good data—and lots of it. Chatbots, for example, learn to converse from millions of web pages full of text. Autonomous vehicles learn to drive from sensor data ...

Health informatics

How doctors use social media to advance medicine

Ever wonder what your doctor is doing on social media? A new study, titled "#MedEd: Medical Education and Knowledge Translation on Social Media," published in JAMA led by John W. Ayers, Ph.D., from the Qualcomm Institute ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Resistant E. coli rises despite drop in ciprofloxacin use

After a nearly three-fold drop in prescriptions for the antibiotic ciprofloxacin between 2015 and 2021, the rates of ciprofloxacin-resistant E. coli bacteria circulating in the community did not decline.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Almost 3,000 cases of West Nile virus reported in U.S. in 2021

In 2021, there were 3,035 reports of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) in the United States, including 2,911 caused by West Nile virus, according to research published in the August 25 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Examining the dynamics of COVID-19's pandemic peak

The SARS-CoV-2 virus swept across the globe at the beginning of 2020, and one of the earliest and hardest-hit areas of the United States was New Jersey.