According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), every year, there are more than two million serious adverse drug reactions (ADR) (i.e., injuries as a result of taking a particular dose of medication or prolong administration of a drug or a mixed of two or more drugs), taking away 100,000 liv
Saurabh Jha, Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania and Scholar of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Radiology believes AI is not only stretching the limits of present-day medicine but also testing the water of our legal boundaries. Machines are now capable of highlighting
The Norfolk and Suffolk National Health Service Foundation Trust (NSFT) will be one of the first mental health trusts in the UK to provide virtual reality (VR) therapy treatment plans for patients suffering from a range of phobias. The NSFT’s Wellbeing Service uses VR headsets to progressively expos
Recently, researchers from Case Western Reserve University reveled an underlying cellular difference between Black and White cancer patients with the help of artificial intelligence (AI). The research team studied close to 400 male patients with prostate cancer in six locations over a period of thre
The annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) global health conference and exhibition supposed to take place between today and 13 March is canceled in view of the ongoing Covid-19 situation. The novel coronavirus, first appeared in Wuhan, China at the turn of the year had
In 2016, Canada Health Infoway, a Canadian government funded non-profit organization launched the Data Impact Challenge II as part of an ongoing effort to explore how digital health can be better developed and adopted nationally. Following its inaugural year, the Challenge called again those with le
Dr. Ali Tamayol, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine had recently invented a handheld 3D bioprinter which can be deployed directly on affected sites with damaged or weakened skeletal muscles for surgeons to release scaffol
Macmillan Cancer Support, one of the largest British charities surveyed 2000 cancer patients recently. Of which, 39% indicated they would turn to the internet for information about their diagnoses and 27% would get confused, worried, and even saddened after doing so. Macmillan explained the feeling
Last week, artificial intelligence (AI) had achieved yet another breakthrough. A neural network built by Synthetic Biologist Jim Collins and his research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) had uncovered a completely novel antibiotic known as halicin from scratch. Although this