Researchers use AI to find non-opioid pain relief options

Credit: Google DeepMind from Pexels An estimated one in five Americans live with chronic pain and current treatment options leave much to be desired. Feixiong Cheng, Ph.D., Director of Cleveland…

AI-powered apps show potential for detecting depression through eye snapshots

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain It has been estimated that nearly 300 million people, or about 4% of the global population, are afflicted by some form of depression. But detecting it…

Interactive tool tracks opioid abuse and dependence state by state

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain FAIR Health has released the Opioid Tracker, a free, interactive tool tracking opioid abuse and dependence state by state. A brief released simultaneously offers a user’s…

How do rare genetic variants affect health? AI provides more accurate predictions

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Whether we are predisposed to particular diseases depends to a large extent on the countless variants in our genome. However, particularly in the case of genetic…

Need medicine in hospital? Study finds how often IT flaws lead to the wrong drug or dose

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every time you are prescribed medicine in hospital, a computer will prompt your doctor about the appropriateness of the medicine and its dose. Every time health…

Almost half of FDA-approved AI medical devices are not trained on real patient data, research reveals

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) has practically limitless applications in health care, ranging from auto-drafting patient messages in MyChart to optimizing organ transplantation and improving tumor removal accuracy.…

Most Americans comfortable with AI in health care

Harrison Jackson, MD, explains the ambient listening app that he uses in appointments to his patient at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The app uses artificial intelligence to…

Data show overall ED visit rate 47 visits per 100 people in 2022

In 2022, the emergency department visit rate was 47 visits per 100 people, according to an August data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics. Christopher Cairns, M.P.H.,…

Strategic reuse of rapid antigen tests for coagulation status assessment using a machine learning approach

Repurposed COVID-19 RATs provide an ideal platform for observing differences in blood coagulability. Random Forest image classification algorithms can facilitate rapid coagulation status assessment on a paper-based LFA platform. Credit:…

Playing a game to understand the human microbiome

The picnic food choices affect the microbiome. Credit: ISDS—TU Graz Researchers at TU Graz have published a video game about the health effects of the microbiome and what impact our…