Cardiology

A new tool to reclassify heart risk and reduce heart attacks

They sit in the middle—the intermediate zone—where they are considered neither low nor high risk for having a heart attack or stroke. But heart disease may well be within striking distance, so how can we more accurately ...

Oncology & Cancer

Tool predicts nerve damage from breast cancer treatment

Many women treated for breast cancer using taxanes, a type of cytostatic drug, often experience side effects in the nervous system. Researchers at Linköping University have developed a tool that can predict the risk level ...

Surgery

AI-based surgical prediction models have limits

Prediction models generated by machine learning are being increasingly used in medicine to identify risk factors and possible outcomes, especially for total joint replacements of knees and hips—although researchers warn ...

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