A team of medical researchers at Western University's Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry has found that despite being trained on terabytes of data, the LLM ChatGPT is still not good at diagnosing human ailments. In ...
Estimating the risk of patients dying is arguably one of the most difficult and stressful challenges physicians face. This has been especially true in the midst of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with doctors around the world ...
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There were fears at the beginning of the COVID pandemic that people with asthma would fare much worse than those without it. Intuitively, a disease that attacks the lungs should put asthma sufferers at much greater risk.
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As Sanjay Johnson describes it, his sexual encounter with James Booth on Oct. 2, 2015, was a one-night stand. But it would bind the men inextricably two years later, when Booth walked into an Arkansas police station and accused ...
Jul 23, 2019
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The technology allows doctors to share, annotate and discuss medical images across a range of handheld devices in real-time, enhancing diagnostic procedures and enabling doctors to reach a broader field of patients.
May 16, 2011
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Hospitals have begun using "decision support tools" powered by artificial intelligence that can diagnose disease, suggest treatment or predict a surgery's outcome. But no algorithm is correct all the time, so how do doctors ...
Apr 4, 2023
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Myanmar's biggest city Yangon has rapidly built new quarantine centres as it scrambles to contain the commercial hub's first significant coronavirus outbreak, with overworked medical staff fearing thousands more cases to ...
Sep 26, 2020
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Anti-abortion organizations are pushing state lawmakers to promote a controversial and unproven "abortion reversal" treatment—flouting the objections of medical professionals who point out it is not supported by science.
Dec 6, 2023
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Scripps Health announced today it has launched an innovative clinical research study that is using whole genome sequencing to help determine the causes of idiopathic human diseases -- those serious, rare and perplexing health ...
Oct 18, 2011
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We trust our doctors with our lives, but the sad and scary fact is that doctors can get things wrong. Approximately 100,000 Americans die each year due to medical errors and recent studies have found that 10 to 15% of all ...
Jul 24, 2023
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