Bayer Launches New Healthy-Aging Ecosystem for Consumers

Combining a scientifically formulated dietary supplement, a leading-edge wellness companion app, and a saliva-based a biological age test by Chronomics, Bayer is taking a big step in the emerging healthy-aging space by offering consumers new tools to help them support their healthy-aging journey with its new Age Factor™ ecosystem.

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A New AI Tool for Cancer

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have designed a versatile, ChatGPT-like AI model capable of performing an array of diagnostic tasks across multiple forms of cancers.

The new AI system, described Sept. 4 in Nature, goes a step beyond many current AI approaches to cancer diagnosis, the researchers said.

Current AI systems are typically trained to perform specific tasks - such as detecting cancer presence or predicting a tumor's genetic profile - and they tend to work only in a handful of cancer types.

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Vision-Based ChatGPT Shows Deficits Interpreting Radiologic Images

Researchers evaluating the performance of ChatGPT-4 Vision found that the model performed well on text-based radiology exam questions but struggled to answer image-related questions accurately. The study's results were published today in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

Chat GPT-4 Vision is the first version of the large language model that can interpret both text and images.

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Machine learning helps identify rheumatoid arthritis subtypes

A machine-learning tool created by Weill Cornell Medicine and Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) investigators can help distinguish subtypes of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which may help scientists find ways to improve care for the complex condition.

The study published Aug. 29 in Nature Communications shows that artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies can effectively and efficiently subtype pathology samples from patients with RA.

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New Diabetes Research Links Blood Glucose Levels and Voice

As part of its ongoing exploration of vocal biomarkers and the role they can play in enhancing health outcomes, Klick Labs published a new study in Scientific Reports - confirming the link between blood glucose levels and voice pitch and opening the door to future advancements in non-invasive glucose monitoring for people living with Type 2 diabetes.

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New AI Software could Make Diagnosing Dementia Easier and Faster for Doctors

Although Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia - a catchall term for cognitive deficits that impact daily living, like the loss of memory or language - it's not the only one. Because multiple causes of dementia can happen simultaneously, reaching a definitive diagnosis isn't easy or quick. And often by then, it’s too late to intervene.

Boston University's Vijaya B. Kolachalama, an expert on using computers to aid medical diagnoses, has created an artificial intelligence tool that can determine what’s causing a person's cognitive decline, and assist doctors in more efficiently zeroing in on an accurate diagnosis.

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AI Spots Cancer and Viral Infections at Nanoscale Precision

Researchers at the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the Fundación Biofisica Bizkaia (FBB, located in Biofisika Institute) have developed an artificial intelligence which can differentiate cancer cells from normal cells, as well as detect the very early stages of viral infection inside cells.

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Video Gaming Improves Mental Well-Being

A pioneering study titled "Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020-2022," published in Nature Human Behaviour, has conducted the most comprehensive investigation to date on the causal relationship between video gaming and mental well-being. This research, the first to demonstrate this relationship using real-life data, challenges commonly held views about the effects of gaming.

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Patient Safety must be Central to the Design, Development and Rollout of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Systems

An EPR system brings together different patient information in one place, making it easier to access for healthcare professionals. This information can include patients' own notes, test results, observations by a range of different clinicians and prescribed medications.

When safely implemented, EPR systems can help to support and improve care and treatment. However, in recent years there has been growing awareness of the significant patient safety risks also associated with their implementation and use.

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ChatGPT Shows Promise in Answering Patients' Questions to Urologists

The groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot shows potential as a time-saving tool for responding to patient questions sent to the urologist's office, suggests a study in the September issue of Urology Practice®, an Official Journal of the American Urological Association (AUA). The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

The artificial intelligence (AI) tool generated "acceptable" responses to nearly one-half of a sample of real-life patient questions, according to the new research by Michael Scott, MD, a urologist at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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