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GPT-4 demonstrates high accuracy in analyzing multilingual medical notes

A study evaluates GPT-4's analysis of medical notes in English, Spanish, and Italian, achieving 79% agreement with physicians on key clinical insights.

6 Jan 2025

Study identifies best imaging methods for evaluating brain tumor response in melanoma patients

Raymond Y. Huang, MD, Ph.D., of the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the corresponding author of a paper published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, "Comparative Analysis of Intracranial Response Assessment Criteria in Patients With Melanoma Brain Metastases Treated With Combination Nivolumab + Ipilimumab in CheckMate 204."

3 Jan 2025

Advanced imaging technology detects undiagnosed metastases in high-risk prostate cancer

A new study led by researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that many cases of high-risk nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer may be more advanced than previously thought.

3 Jan 2025

Clue's CEO Rhiannon White on the Future of Femtech and PCOS

Under Rhiannon White's leadership, Clue is transforming menstrual health tracking into a powerful tool for research and improved reproductive health outcomes.

3 Jan 2025

Researchers grow tumor organoids from blood to tackle breast cancer metastasis

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the "germ cells" of breast cancer metastases. They are very rare and could not be propagated in the culture dish until now, which made research into therapy resistance difficult.

3 Jan 2025

Social connections may boost immunity and reduce disease risk

Interactions with friends and family may keep us healthy because they boost our immune system and reduce our risk of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes, new research suggests.

3 Jan 2025

Stimulant users are caught in fatal ‘fourth wave’ of opioid epidemic

In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, near a storefront advertising "free" cellphones, J.R. sat in an empty back stairwell and showed a reporter how he tries to avoid overdosing when he smokes crack cocaine.

3 Jan 2025

A new blood test for endometriosis

Australian researchers develop novel test to diagnose debilitating condition affecting one in nine Australian women and girls.

3 Jan 2025

New nanopore-based tool enables single molecule disease detection

UC Riverside scientists have developed a nanopore-based tool that could help diagnose illnesses much faster and with greater precision than current tests allow, by capturing signals from individual molecules.

2 Jan 2025

Breakthrough in immunology: AbMAP’s novel approach to antibody modeling

Researchers developed AbMAP, a cutting-edge framework leveraging transfer learning to model antibody hypervariable regions, significantly improving design and immune repertoire analysis.

2 Jan 2025

New research affirms clozapine safety with minimal blood cancer risk

An inter-departmental research team at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has conducted the world's first analytic real-world cohort study on the association of clozapine, a highly efficacious antipsychotic drug, with the incidence of blood cancer.

2 Jan 2025

New insights into tristetraprolin's impact on basophil-mediated allergic inflammation

Inflammation is a crucial part of the body's defense mechanism, playing a key role in fighting infections and repairing tissue damage.

2 Jan 2025

New AI techniques improve tumor detection in PET and CT scans

Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve the analysis of medical image data. For example, algorithms based on deep learning can determine the location and size of tumors.

2 Jan 2025

Research explores how carbon nanotubes help remove steroid hormones from water

Steroid hormones are among the most widespread aquatic micropollutants. They are harmful to human health, and they cause ecological imbalances in aquatic environments.

2 Jan 2025

AI-based models can outperform human experts at identifying ovarian cancer

A new international study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that AI-based models can outperform human experts at identifying ovarian cancer in ultrasound images.

2 Jan 2025

Observational studies overestimate smoking's impact on CKD risk

A recent study published in Health Data Science led by Zhilong Zhang from the Institute of Medical Technology at Peking University Health Science Center and Professor Luxia Zhang from the National Institute of Health Data Science at Peking University has shed light on the complex relationship between smoking behavior and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

2 Jan 2025

Smartphone app enhances retention and reduces opioid use in patients

Patients with opioid use disorder can reduce their days of opioid use and stay in treatment longer when using a smartphone app as supportive therapy in combination with medication, a new study by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) shows.

30 Dec 2024