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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Almost 40% of Americans delayed healthcare due to COVID-19

According to a recent survey from Insure.com, almost 40% of Americans put off some healthcare services last year.

Deep learning to improve immunotherapies for cancer, other diseases

Johns Hopkins researchers have used deep neural networks to draw important insights—prescriptive as well as descriptive—into adaptive immunity from massive stores of T-cell receptor sequencing data.

Individuals with MS well served by monitoring with ML

Noting that multiple sclerosis now affects more people between 50 and 60 than any other age group, researchers have shown how machine-learning gait analysis can help personalize therapy regimens.

COVID-19 coronavirus

Growing library of literature on COVID-focused AI found wanting for usefulness

Academic researchers in the U.K. have completed a systematic review of 62 representative studies on the use of AI for COVID-19 diagnostics and prognostics on X-rays and CT scans. Their findings may strike some as a setback.  

Deep learning detects, annotates epileptic seizures on scant EEG data

Researchers have demonstrated that deep learning models can help neurologists interpret epileptic episodes during and between seizures from relatively few scalp electroencephalography (EEG) readings.

AI guides therapeutic decisions for dialysis patients

Researchers have developed an AI-based system that can direct the administering of iron and other red-blood-cell stimulators nearly as well as experienced physicians.

Explainable AI for breast cancer shows multidisciplinary logic ‘pixel by pixel’

The advance represents the first cancer-care pathway offering an automatically combined analysis of morphological, molecular and histological data. 

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Many elderly Americans don’t understand their Medicare plans

About one-quarter of elderly Americans don’t fully understand their Medicare Advantage or Medicare Supplement plans, according to a new survey.