‘I’m ready to embrace AI doctors’
Consultant paediatrician Martin Farrier faces a nightmarish future – and finds it reassuringly familiar
Lately I’ve been counting AI doctors like (electric) sheep as I attempt to drift off to sleep. And I blame…
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Pitchfest 2022 winner CardMedic secures £411k Innovate UK grant
Digital Health Pitchfest winner CardMedic has secured £411,000 in funding from Innovate UK’s SMART grant programme for its frontline healthcare language app.
The grant will fund a 12-month project, running from April 2025 to March…
Generalist medical foundation model improves prostate cancer segmentation from multimodal MRI images
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common types of cancer, seriously affecting adult male health. Accurate and automated PCa segmentation is essential for radiologists to confirm the location of cancer, evaluate its…
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More accurate ageing clock relies only on clinical data
A new algorithm-based biological ageing clock developed in Singapore has shown potential to better predict mortality and health outcomes by only using clinical data. Researchers from the National University of Singapore’s Yong Loo Lin School…
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College Community–Based Physical Activity Support at a Public University During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Retrospective Longitudinal Analysis of Intra- Versus Interpersonal Components for Uptake and Outcome Association
Background: College students are vulnerable to setting long-term trajectories of low physical activity (PA) but are reachable via mobile health fitness tracking (eg, mobile health step counting) and interpersonal support tailored to the college…
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Eliminating Cancer Treatment Side-Effects Through Targeted Drug Delivery
Tim Barrow-Williams, Head of Drug Delivery at PA Consulting
Bill Hartman, Pharma and Medtech Design Expert at PA Consulting
Last year, the American Cancer Society predicted that in 2024, the US would reach two million annual…
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HIStalk Interviews Jaideep Tandon, CEO, Infinx
Jaideep Tandon, MS is co-founder and CEO of Infinx.
Tell me about yourself and the company.
I come from a technology background in engineering, with a focus on doing back office work over…
How Specialists & General Providers Together Can Drive Early Detection of MASLD/MASH to Transform Patients’ Liver Health
Dr. Angelo Paredes, a Board-Certified Gastroenterologist and Transplant Hepatologist joins eHealth Radio and the eHealth Radio and Health News and Liver Health Channels. His practice focuses on the management of MASLD and MASH, liver…
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Large scale causal modeling to identify adults at risk for combined and common variable immunodeficiencies
Combined immunodeficiencies (CID) and common variable immunodeficiencies (CVID), prevalent yet substantially underdiagnosed primary immunodeficiencies, necessitate improved early detection. Leveraging large-scale electronic health records (EHR) from four nationwide US cohorts, we developed a novel causal…
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Uncovering ethical biases in publicly available fetal ultrasound datasets
We explore biases present in publicly available fetal ultrasound (US) imaging datasets, currently at the disposal of researchers to train deep learning (DL) algorithms for prenatal diagnostics. As DL increasingly permeates the field of…
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