Healthcare faces significant challenges, including workforce shortages and increasing demands. Socially assistive robots (SARs) have emerged as potential solutions to augment care, but their implementation in hospital wards remains largely unexplored. We conducted a…
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Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms that worsen over time, significantly impacting quality of life. While clinical evaluations such as the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating…
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Understanding the Burden of Rare Diseases
Rare diseases represent a significant challenge for both patients and healthcare systems worldwide. Research demonstrates that the collective burden of rare diseases is comparable to that of major conditions…
Background: Questionnaire-based symptom assessment may introduce recall bias and lacks bidirectional exploration. This is particularly relevant given the unclear direction of the associations between physical activity (PA), sedentary time (ST) and symptoms in patients…
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Background: Cancer-related fatigue is a common and significant symptom experienced by cancer patients and survivors across all age groups, profoundly impacting their quality of life. Adolescents and young adults often encounter substantial academic, career,…
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Nargiz Noimann, Founder of X-Technology
Clinicians rightly celebrate when treatment ends. Yet many patients leave our clinics still carrying the invisible weight of illness—anxiety, low mood, pain, and a fragile sense of self. The evidence…
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Background: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) and low back pain are prevalent in Asia, posing significant challenges. Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is the gold standard for managing degenerative knee arthritis, with post-TKA rehabilitation crucial for improving…
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Clinical decision-making substantially impacts patients’ lives and their quality of life. However, the black-box nature of AI-powered clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) complicates the interpretation of how decisions are derived. Explainable AI (XAI) improves…
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Dr Cynthia Bullock, director, healthy lives at Innovate UK (Credit: Cynthia Bullock)
More than £3.6 million has been awarded to 17 extended reality (XR) projects to create immersive digital mental health therapeutics to tackle…
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Arnaud Rosier, CEO of Implicity
As healthcare continues its shift toward value-based, patient-centered care, remote monitoring (RM) has become a cornerstone in the management of chronic cardiac conditions. For patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) and…
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