Medications
Deprescribing efforts failing dementia patients, study finds
Researchers led by the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, have examined how a dementia diagnosis impacts medication use patterns in older adults.
News tagged with medical diagnosis
Cardiology
Cardiac amyloidosis: New AI system developed for early diagnosis
Cardiac amyloidosis is a serious disease in which abnormal proteins (amyloids) accumulate in the heart muscle and impair heart function. As the disease leads to serious complications such as heart insufficiency and, in many ...
Mar 21, 2024
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Radiology & Imaging
Researchers develop an ultrasensitive broadband transparent ultrasound transducer
The 'ultrasound-photoacoustic dual-modal imaging system' combines molecular imaging contrast with ultrasound imaging, and it can visualize molecular and structural information inside the body in real time without any ionizing ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Pediatrics
New AI smartphone tool accurately diagnoses ear infections
A new cellphone app developed by physician-scientists at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to accurately diagnose ear infections, or acute otitis media (AOM), could help decrease ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Radiology & Imaging
New AI tool accurately detects COVID-19 from chest X-rays
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that can rapidly detect COVID-19 from chest X-rays with more than 98% accuracy. The study results have just been published in Scientific Reports.
Jan 8, 2024
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Pediatrics
ChatGPT found to have very low success rate in diagnosing pediatric case studies
A trio of pediatricians at Cohen Children's Medical Center, in New York, has found ChatGPT's pediatric diagnostic skills to be considerably lacking after asking the LLM to diagnose 100 random case studies. In their study, ...
Health informatics
Study assesses GPT-4's potential to perpetuate racial, gender biases in clinical decision making
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and GPT-4 have the potential to assist in clinical practice to automate administrative tasks, draft clinical notes, communicate with patients, and even support clinical decision making. ...
Dec 18, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Study shows skin cancer diagnoses using AI are as reliable as those made by medical experts
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already widely used in medical diagnostics. An Austrian-Australian research team led by dermatologist Harald Kittler from MedUni Vienna has investigated the extent to which diagnosis and therapy ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome found to be 91% accurate
An international team of medical researchers has announced the development of a blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome. The test is reportedly 91% accurate. In their paper published in the journal Advanced Science, the group ...
Genetics
Researchers use 'deep sequencing' to identify previously undescribed genetic variants in vascular anomalies
Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) recently discovered that extremely thorough "deep sequencing" of the genome in tissue samples and cell-free DNA of patients with potentially life-threatening vascular ...
Jun 1, 2023
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