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.

Machine learning helps scientists predict patients’ response to antidepressants

Current trial-and-error approaches may force patients to suffer through severe depression for months, leading to loss of employment, marriage or life. 

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AI system successfully IDs colorectal cancer in whole slide images

One specialist described the findings as "revolutionary," noting that the system could help save health systems significant money. 

AI guides care of slow-healing wounds

Industry researchers challenged a machine learning model to predict failure to heal at four, eight and 12 weeks after initial treatment.

AI predicts gathering disease with a deep dive into evolutionary genetics

Researchers have used unsupervised machine learning to predict disease-causing properties in more than 36 million genetic variants across more than 3,200 disease-related genes.

Opioid overdoses more readily preventable with ensemble learning

The model’s developers suggest algorithmic prognoses could be aggregated to guide overdose prevention at the local, county and regional levels.

AI exposes tactics, routes taken by antibiotic-resistant infections

New research shows horizontal gene transfer is predictable in bacteria by machine learning, a development that could lead to better weapons in the war against E. coli and other bacterial assailants that collaborate to conquer pharmacologic first responders.  

What limits AI as it continues ‘significantly altering the fundamental means of biological discovery?’

Could AI help produce a unifying concept of human disease—one that might help prevent, mitigate or cure everything from birth defects and rare cancers to immune disorders and neurological defects?

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Mark Cuban jumps into the PBM space

Famed billionaire Mark Cuban is entering the world of pharmacy benefit management.