Precision Medicine

Also called personalized medicine, this evolving field makes use of an individual’s genes, lifestyle, environment and other factors to identify unique disease risks and guide treatment decision-making.
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AI biopsy dilemma: Wolf or husky, equity or bias?

Early on in the development of digital image recognition, the technology showed a penchant for taking logical but potentially problematic shortcuts: It would look to image artifacts and incidental “asides” such as background features to distinguish between two visually similar subjects.

July 22, 2021
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AI casts wide net to predict functional decline in the elderly

Psychology researchers have used machine learning to wring useful two-year dementia trajectory predictions from more than 500 potentially contributing risk factors.

July 21, 2021
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Colonoscopy AI passed meaningful milestones but has miles to go before it sweeps

Before colonoscopy AI can progress from lab to clinic on a broad scale—and win regulatory approvals along the way—it has to show its diagnostic mettle in numerous large clinical trials conducted at multiple facilities.

July 20, 2021
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Bereavement better understood, treated with assist from AI

Various iterations of AI “hold tremendous promise” to help personalize counseling for individuals grieving the loss of a loved one. 

July 15, 2021
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Alcohol consumption linked to multiple cancers

Alcohol consumption was responsible for more than 4% of new cancer cases in 2020.

 

July 14, 2021
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AI guides delicate CT decisionmaking in the ED

Emergency physicians have a tough time identifying patients who have Crohn’s disease and truly need a CT scan to pinpoint the cause of acute abdominal distress.

July 13, 2021
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Walgreens expands partnership with VillageMD

Walgreens Boots Alliance is opening 29 primary care practices with VillageMD in Texas under the Village Medical brand. 

 

July 13, 2021
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AI bests expert surgeons at flagging likely complications in upcoming operations

The deep learning models had nothing more to go on than routine abdominal CT scans acquired preoperatively.

July 9, 2021