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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Meet the 10 best hospitals in the world

North America has bragging rights to the five best hospitals in the world, although institutions specifically in the United States make up only nine of the top 25.

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Healthcare enrollment jumps in first two weeks of special period

More than 206,000 consumers enrolled in a healthcare plan during the Covid-19 special enrollment period (SEP), according to new data reported by Health Affairs.

 

AI finds pre-diabetes using only age, waist size—and Darwinism

Researchers in Italy have demonstrated a no-cost, AI-based technique for detecting the presence of previously undiagnosed abnormalities in blood sugar stability.

AI picks out blood biomarkers for autism

If verified in additional trials, the advance will facilitate care planning much earlier than the current average age of diagnosis, 4 years old.

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CVS Health to re-enter ACA marketplace

CVS Health, which owns health insurance giant Aetna, will return to the Obamacare marketplace to sell individual insurance plans in 2022, the company announced during a fourth-quarter earnings call.

Everyday people photos equip AI for skin-cancer screening

AI can be taught to flag possible skin cancers on photos taken with smartphone cameras—and the images can be ordinary “people shots” rather than closeups of suspicious lesions.

Machine learning helps guide difficult decisions on inpatient transfers

The tool makes the call based on factors readily available to busy clinicians, respecting their workflows while helping patients and families decide whether moving to access a stepped-up care setting would fit well with their aims and values.

AI exposes ‘severe’ underestimation of COVID prevalence at the hands of antibody surveys

Two bioinformatics experts have used AI to accurately estimate regional COVID infection rates, aka seroprevalence, in all 50 states and 50 hard-hit countries.