We probably know pediatrics drugs just as much as we do the Mariana Trench, yet, the medical opportunities behind generating medications for younger patients are also the buttons which deter us from doing so. In US and EU, most pediatrics drugs are not tested on children, even if they are, clinical
The lifespan of the automated anesthesiologist was short yet tempestuous; obtained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval in 2013, reported to be used by four hospitals in 2015, and left the market in March 2016. During which many an anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetist got offended by i
Recently, a group of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and The Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society (IT’IS) had facilitated three spinal cord injury (SCI) patients to stand and walk again with the use of
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has a long-running documentary television series called “Horizon”, which explores science and philosophy related topics. In its latest episode debut on 1 November, the 60-minute program tells the emergence of artificial intelligence and its impact on health
The discussion of ethics in artificial intelligence is on the table again when researchers from the Media Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published the results of The Moral Machine experiment on Nature last week. This thought experiment embarked in 2014, when a game-like platform
A decade ago, when Mark Zachary Rosenthal, present associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences of Duke University set out to use virtual reality (VR) in helping drug addicts to overcome their cravings, he put them in a simulated crack house. Rosenthal believes cravings is a learned beh
ovidVR hit the surgical training product market last May with a backpack size Virtual Reality (VR) versions of a complete total knee and total hip arthroplasty. ovidVR aims to complement the traditional cadaver lab, by adding a multi-user co-op mode and performance analytics, which render trainees h
The early adoption of virtual reality (VR) in hospitals involved pain management, when Hunter Hoffman, a researcher from University of Washington built a $90,000 unit which immersed burn patients in a 3D video game called SnowWorld when their wounds were being cleaned. Patients claimed that the pain
Machines learning promises us a future where hefty and complex data can be analyzed in no time and patterns can be logically drawn from an ocean of randomness. Apart from electronic medical records, the human gene and genome has also rendered a sizeable playing field. Machine learning method is eith