Research

World First for AI and Machine Learning to Treat COVID-19 Patients Worldwide

Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge along with 20 other hospitals from across the world and healthcare technology leader, NVIDIA, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict COVID patients' oxygen needs on a global scale.

The research was sparked by the pandemic and set out to build an AI tool to predict how much extra oxygen a COVID-19 patient may need in the first days of hospital care, using data from across four continents.

Scientists Synthesized a Yellow Fever Drug Suggested by AI

Yellow fever is a deadly disease in overpopulated tropical regions of Africa and South America. Infected people have a temperature increase to 39-41°C, chills, severe headache, nausea, and vomiting. The patient’s face becomes dull, the eyelids swell and the skin turns yellow due to liver damage (hence the name of the disease). Before the yellow fever vaccine was developed, the infection claimed thousands of lives for example in 1871, 8 percent of the population of Buenos Aires died in the epidemic.

Almost Two Thirds of Thoracic Oncologists Used Telehealth for the First-Time During Pandemic: IASLC Survey

Nearly two-thirds of thoracic oncologists surveyed indicated they used telehealth tools for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report issued at the IASLC 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Telehealth and telemedicine emerged as essential communications tools during the COVID-19 pandemic as alternatives to face-to-face consultation between patients and physicians.

Scientists Develop AI to Predict the Success of Startup Companies

A study in which machine-learning models were trained to assess over 1 million companies has shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can accurately determine whether a startup ﬁrm will fail or become successful. The outcome is a tool that has the potential to help investors identify the next unicorn.

Ranking Apps on Privacy

The last thing you want to do when installing a new, free app on your phone is to scroll through pages of information on what kind of access to your personal information it requires. App builders count on this, and their intrusive apps harvest data that they can then sell. That is why University of Groningen computer scientist Fadi Mohsen, together with colleagues from the University of Michigan-Flint (US) and the Palestinian An-Najah National University, has developed an algorithm that ranks similar apps on privacy scores.

A Game Changer: Virtual Reality Reduces Pain and Anxiety in Children

It isn’t a matter of one needle puncture. Many children coming through the doors of Children's Hospital Los Angeles are seen for chronic conditions and often require frequent visits. Painful procedures - like a blood draw or catheter placement - can cause anxiety and fear in patients. Now, a study published in JAMA Network Open shows that virtual reality can decrease pain and anxiety in children undergoing intravenous (IV) catheter placement.

AI Algorithm Solves Structural Biology Challenges

Determining the 3D shapes of biological molecules is one of the hardest problems in modern biology and medical discovery. Companies and research institutions often spend millions of dollars to determine a molecular structure - and even such massive efforts are frequently unsuccessful.

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