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In death, one cancer patient helps to erase millions in medical debt
A New York City woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase millions of dollars in medical debt with a posthumous plea for help.
Nov 18, 2023
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Medications
FDA looking into new risks with popular weight-loss drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating reports of additional dangers linked to several wildly popular weight-loss drugs.
Jan 4, 2024
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Health
Younger people are more vulnerable to the damaging effects of high blood cholesterol and hypertension, study shows
Young people may be more susceptible to the effects of the risk factors for developing atherosclerosis. According to a study carried out at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), younger people are ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Inside the plan to diagnose Alzheimer's in people with no memory problems and who stands to benefit
In a darkened Amsterdam conference hall this summer, a panel of industry and academic scientists took the stage to announce a plan to radically expand the definition of Alzheimer's disease to include millions of people with ...
Feb 19, 2024
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Health informatics
Medical AI tool gets human thumbs-up in first study
A new artificial intelligence computer program created by researchers at the University of Florida and NVIDIA can generate doctors' notes so well that two physicians couldn't tell the difference, according to an early study ...
Nov 21, 2023
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Medications
Gabapentinoids associated with severe exacerbation of COPD
A population-based cohort study of more than 10,000 persons using gabapentinoids found that their use was associated with an increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. This study supports ...
Jan 15, 2024
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Health informatics
AI chatbot shows potential as diagnostic partner, researchers find
Physician-investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) compared a chatbot's probabilistic reasoning to that of human clinicians. The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, suggest that artificial intelligence ...
Dec 11, 2023
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Medical research
AI study reveals the tongue's unique surface
Artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D images of the human tongue have revealed that the surface of our tongues are unique to each of us, new findings suggest. The results offer an unprecedented insight into the biological make-up ...
Dec 14, 2023
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Medications
Nearly 40% of type 2 diabetes patients stop taking their second-line medication, finds study
Most patients with type 2 diabetes will end up needing to add a second-line medication after metformin—the go-to primary drug for glucose management—to control their blood sugar levels. But adherence to these second-line ...
Dec 12, 2023
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Neuroscience
Study identifies the top three genes responsible for traumatic brain injury complications
The severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been underscored in the last decade as doctors seek to understand its role in neurological diseases like chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive and fatal brain ...
Nov 17, 2023
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