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International Team Led by BSC Develops AI Technology to Improve Treatment of Rare Diseases

An international team of scientists led by ICREA researcher and Director of the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Alfonso Valencia, has developed a technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) for the study of minority diseases and has successfully applied it to identify the possible causes of the appearance of what are known as myasthenic-congenital syndromes, a group of rare inherited disorders that limit the ability to move and cause varying degrees of muscle weakness in patients.

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For Type II Diabetes Prevention, Tap into AI

Better prevention of Type II diabetes could save both lives and money. The U.S. spends over $730 billion a year - nearly a third of all health care spending - on treating preventable diseases like diabetes.

For the 98 million adults who are prediabetic and at risk of developing Type II diabetes, preventive treatments such as the drug metformin can help stave off the disease.

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Bayer Driving Progress in Radiology through Innovation in Research and Radiology AI

Bayer moves ahead with advancements across its comprehensive Radiology portfolio as well as expanded offering in its digital business and services. The company announced that new clinical and pre-clinical data for gadoquatrane, Bayer's novel investigational macrocyclic gadolinium-based contrast agent currently in Phase III clinical development, will be presented at the 2024 European Congress of Radiology (ECR) - taking place from February 28 to March 3, 2024, in Vienna, Austria.

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AI Matches or Outperforms Human Specialists in Retina and Glaucoma Management

A large language model (LLM) artificial intelligence (AI) system can match, or in some cases outperform, human ophthalmologists in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with glaucoma and retina disease, according to research from New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai (NYEE).

The provocative study, published February 22, in JAMA Ophthalmology, suggests that advanced AI tools, which are trained on vast amounts of data, text, and images,

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Improving Efficiency, Reliability of AI Medical Summarization Tools

Medical summarization, a process that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to condense complex patient information, is currently used in health care settings for tasks such as creating electronic health records and simplifying medical text for insurance claims processing. While the practice is intended to create efficiencies, it can be labor-intensive, according to Penn State researchers, who created a new method to streamline the way AI creates these summaries, efficiently producing more reliable results.

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iTalkBetter App Significantly Improves Speech in Stroke Patients

A UCL-developed app that provides speech therapy for people with the language disorder aphasia has been found to significantly improve their ability to talk.

iTalkBetter, developed by the Neurotherapeutics Group at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, provides users the digital platform to practice over 200 commonly used words, in their own time and without any limits on the amount of therapy they receive.

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Generative AI Used to Create Translatable Pediatric Care Educational Videos for Hospitals in Resource-Poor Countries

A team of pediatric clinicians at Mass General Brigham have turned to generative artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle problems plaguing child medical care delivery in resource-poor countries that increase risk for poor outcomes and mortality.

The clinicians developed a series of 45 multilingual videos, each ranging from 3 to 8 minutes long, designed to educate providers around the world on pediatric care topics touching on teamwork,

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Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System Building New Shared Care Record with Orion Health

Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (MSE ICS) is working with Orion Health on a shared care record that will help it to address some of the most pressing health and social care issues faced by its population.

To support the development of the shared care record, the ICS and Orion Health are adopting an innovative strategy that focuses on solving real-world problems.

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Telehealth is as Safe as a Visit to the Clinic for Abortion Pills

Large national study finds that video visits, texting and mailing pills are all effective, as the U.S. Supreme Court considers limiting access to telemedicine abortion.

Medication abortion can be delivered safely and effectively through telemedicine, according to new research from UC San Francisco that comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is about to hear a case that could severely restrict access to one of the two pills that are used to induce abortions.

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Both Virtual and in-Person Nutrition Visits Help to Lower Cholesterol

Despite an end to the national public health emergency in May 2023, the use of telehealth remains high, with over 20% of American adults taking appointments online.

These visits include video calls with registered dietitian nutritionists, who have a critical role in helping patients take on lifestyle changes through medical nutrition therapy.

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