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.
COVID Nightmare

AI links COVID-19 to poor sleep, bad dreams

The COVID-19 pandemic is a bad dream in the truest sense of the word—and AI helps to prove it, a team of researchers assert in a study published online Oct. 1 in Frontiers in Psychology.

October 1, 2020
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AI could correct male bias in drug trials

Researchers at Columbia University have developed a machine learning algorithm that identifies and predicts gender-based differences in adverse reactions to drugs. 

October 1, 2020
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UnitedHealth Group acquires online medications provider

Amazon-owned PillPack and other players face a new online pharmacy competitor with UnitedHealth’s acquisition of startup company divvyDOSE. 

October 1, 2020

FDA clears AI lung diagnostics

A supplier of healthcare software in the respiratory care space has received the FDA’s blessing to market deep learning elements newly added to an existing product.

September 24, 2020
Regina Barzilay

AI pioneer wins $1M prize for work in breast imaging, drug discovery

The work of Regina Barzilay, PhD, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, has focused on breast imaging, the development of new antibiotics and much more. 

September 24, 2020
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Online database of FDA-approved AI debuts

A small but mighty research outfit based in Hungary has compiled a user-friendly database of medical technologies anchored in AI and approved by the FDA.

September 22, 2020
While a vast majority of heart transplants in the United States are successful, unplanned hospitalizations after the procedures are still incredibly common. Top 10 reasons for readmission after heart transplant.

3 tips to help hospital executives tackle the pandemic-induced surgery backlog

Michigan Medicine medical doctors recently detailed their advice in the Annals of Surgery. 

September 21, 2020
Sleep

Sleep apnea trackable by smartphone with AI assistance

The novel AI-aided app can run on both Apple and Android operating systems and only needs to be placed near the would-be sleeper—a familiar nightstand, shelf or end table will do—at bedtime.

September 18, 2020