As resources are prioritized to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, individuals living with special needs, chronic conditions, rare diseases, and cancer may have been unintentionally left behind. A pandemic which amplifies neglect and challenges According to the major health insurance compa
Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining attention in recent years as it shows promises in the detection, triage and treatment of various medical conditions by giving early warning signs or sifting out effective interventions. The potential of AI is further explored in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,
The novel coronavirus was identified and sequenced as early as December. Professionals know that the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), an over 30-year-old technique routinely used in labs around the world is the standard test use for identifying individuals infected with Severe Acute Respiratory Synd
Fundamentally, cancer was caused by damaging the DNA in cells. At the same time, this also turns out to be one of its weaknesses. As such, cancer cells can be theoretically destroyed by impairing their DNA or switching off its ability to repair it. Recently, a group of researchers at the Institute o
At the dawn of COVID-19, Trust CoLab, an online platform initiated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Center of Collective Intelligence and United States Pharmacopeia (USP) requested more than 100 global academia and physicians including experts affiliated to the American Associati
The meaning of race in medicine is believed to be dichotomized. On one hand, ethnicity sheds light on different genetic pools within a population. On the other hand, medicine is thought to have a long history of being racist and there has never been sufficient evidence to indicate one’s ethnic backg
A team of computer scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a federal research facility founded by the University of California, Berkeley proposed the use of Confidence Calibration for a more reliable classifier model to predict disease types based on diagnostic images. In a
For the first time, dexamethasone, a cheap and widely available steroid used to reduce inflammation and treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and asthma was found to reduce deaths by a third in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Even though full data from the study have yet to be published nor sys
Early on, AIMed reported, in spite of the continuous improvement over the years, scientists at the University of Utah Health, Harvard University and Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that some electronic health record (EHR) systems are still unable to detect damaging drug interactions and other med