Trial By Error: Yet Another Long Covid Study with Bogus Claims Published by a Prestige Journal
By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve recently spent some time lambasting a Long Covid study in The BMJ that claimed a rehab program addressing both physical and mental health was “clinically effective”—even though the primary outcome results fell below the recommended level for what would be considered “minimal clinically important difference” on the measure in question. … Trial By Error: Yet Another Long Covid Study with Bogus Claims Published by a Prestige Journal Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - April 4, 2024 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Hungary Long Covid nature Scientific Reports Source Type: blogs
Will Patients Have To Pay For Using AI In Their Healthcare?
This article discussed how the author was asked if she wanted to pay $40 extra for additional AI analysis in mammography. In her case a Manhattan radiology clinic offered an AI analysis of their mammogram for an additional $40, not covered by insurance. This scenario was echoed at a clinic in suburban Baltimore, where patients were similarly offered AI-assisted mammography for a $40 fee. These instances mark the initial real-world applications of AI in patient care but also introduce new factors to the healthcare equation.
To make things more complicated, we can’t look for a single, universal solution here. Heal...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AI in healthcare AI in medicine Source Type: blogs
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I ' m not going to " do " Columbus this year. I think people are coming around to the consensus that he is not a person who should have statues or a day in his honor. I ' ll just outsource to Adam Conover That taken care of, I commend your attention to thisinterview by Scientific American with Peter Hotez, who is dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, on the authoritarian roots of science denial. Best you read the whole thing, but here ' s a pull quote.People call [the antiscience movement] “misinformation” or “the
infodemic” as though it’s just random junk out there on t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How Could Digital Technology Make An Impact On Primary Care?
I truly hope that very soon I do not have to make an appointment at the GP when I suspect signs of a disease, but my GP will send me a message that she spotted something irregular in my latest test results and my digital health data, so I’d better visit. Let me show you in detail how primary care should be carried out in the future!
Digital health should become an organic part of primary care in the future
I live a fairly healthy life. I use data to improve my lifestyle and to make better decisions by optimising my sleep pattern, my physical, my cognitive or my emotional abilities; and I had several genetic tests....
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Digital Health Research Healthcare Innovation technology wearables GP primary care general practitioner Source Type: blogs
Top 6 Companies Using AI In Drug Discovery And Development
What if coming up with a new drug could be measured in days rather than years? What if new medication would cost thousands instead of billions of dollars? Just look at how an AI pharma start-up developed a potential new drug in 46 days! Artificial intelligence technologies promise to speed up the process of drug discovery and development and make it more cost-effective. As the market is flourishing, and it takes time and effort to separate the wheat from the chaff, we collected the most promising AI pharma companies out there.
Drug design is a key area AI is revolutionizing. In one of our latest database projects, we de...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Pharma Genomics research clinical trials AI drug development medication drug discovery drug research cure Source Type: blogs
ChatGPT Alternatives For Healthcare And Research
ChatGPT has made a name for itself in the world of AI, along with Bard and MedPaLM. Following the success of these first-generation language models, a host of alternatives, including the open-source project Spark NLP for Healthcare, have emerged. Our exploration today focuses on alternative solutions that, while underpinned by the principles of ChatGPT, have potential utility in the healthcare and research sectors.
ChatGPT is remarkable, but it does have its drawbacks: a knowledge cut-off in November 2021, unilateral control and updates by OpenAI, an iOS-exclusive mobile app, and API-only integration, which can be quite...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine digital health large language models GPT in healthcare ChatGPT in healthcare AI Source Type: blogs
Let Them Stay
Paul MatzkoDr. Muhil Ravichandran has a PharmD from Rutgers University and works in cancer research. She has lived legally in America for almost her entire life and is a model immigrant. Yet because of America’s broken immigration system, she’s going to beforced to leave her home and take her much ‐needed talents elsewhere.Ravichandran legally moved to the USA with her family when she was two years old, but when she became an adult she was no longer covered by her family ’s legal status. While in college she qualified for a student visa, but upon graduation she was forced to fall back on the vagaries of the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 2, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Paul Matzko Source Type: blogs
Finally A Good Wearable Blood Pressure Monitor: Aktiia Bracelet Review
The digital health revolution has been lagging behind in at least one major field: blood pressure monitoring. For a very long time, there were no better solutions in the market than traditional cuffs. Even the first smartwatches (like the one I tested from Omron), were big and uncomfortable to wear. So it was time for companies to realise the future of BP monitoring lies in Photoplethysmography (PPG).
PPG is a non-invasive optical technique used to measure blood volume changes in the microvascular bed of tissue. It works by shining a light onto the skin and then measuring the variations in light intensity that result fr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Aktiia review blood pressure wearable blood pressure monitor non-invasive blood pressure monitor blood pressure bracelet digital health sensors Source Type: blogs
Testing A Wireless Wearable Glucose Sensor – FreeStyle Libre Review
I have tested over a hundred digital health devices and gadgets over the past 8 years. And by far the most problematic of all these has been the FreeStyle Libre wireless wearable glucose sensor review. Don’t misunderstand me, the technology is brilliant, the sensor works flawlessly, but boy, regulatory hurdles were making it the toughest challenge. But let’s start at the beginning.
I am not diabetic but as a health-conscious person doing what I do (predicting the future of healthcare and medicine), I had been yearning to try continuous glucose monitoring for two reasons. First, I wanted to go through the pr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Freestyle Libre Review blood glucose digital health continous glucose monitoring wireless wearable glucose sensor diabetes management Source Type: blogs
Testing A Wireless Wearable Glucose Sensor – FreeStyle Libre 2 Review
I have tested over a hundred digital health devices and gadgets over the past 8 years. And by far the most problematic of all these has been the FreeStyle Libre wireless wearable glucose sensor review. Don’t misunderstand me, the technology is brilliant, the sensor works flawlessly, but boy, regulatory hurdles were making it the toughest challenge. But let’s start at the beginning.
I am not diabetic but as a health-conscious person doing what I do (predicting the future of healthcare and medicine), I had been yearning to try continuous glucose monitoring for two reasons. First, I wanted to go through the pr...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 14, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine blood glucose digital health continous glucose monitoring wireless wearable glucose sensor Freestyle Libre diabetes management Freestyle Libre Review Source Type: blogs
What Is the Legal Authority for Biden ’s Parole Programs?
David J. BierPresident Bidenannounced on January 5, 2023 that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be creating new programs for Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans, and Nicaraguans that would grant parole —a temporary discretionary status—to qualified applicants with U.S. sponsors for up to 2 years. Now several statesare suing to stop the programs, which will lead to more illegal immigration. Without getting into the states ’ various administrative law claims, my view is that there is little support for the states ' narrow view of the parole power in the legislative history or judicial precedent.[1]Parole is com...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 25, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
A Hungarian Jewish man ’ s fight for freedom [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Despite the terror of the Soviets, it was clear that not even their mighty tanks could eradicate the social tides that now, like a tsunami, could not be turned back. The power of the movement forced Ernő Gerő, just a few months into his
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A Hungarian Jewish man’s fight for freedom [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 30, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast OB/GYN Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Dick Tater
The American right has long admired Vladimir Putin. The Former Guy ' s groveling to him is of course notorious. Many ascribe it to blackmail, and that might be part of it, but admiration for autocracy among American conservatives is real. Just witness the love for Hungarian strong manVictor Orban, who headlined the recent Conservative Political Action Conference. American conservatives particularly admire Putin because he symbolizes for them a form of machismo that they equate with national power and military effectiveness. Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted last year that “[p]erhaps a woke, emasculated military is not...
Source: Stayin' Alive - September 22, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The true story of a Hungarian Jewish man ’s fight for freedom
An excerpt from Not A Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man’s Fight for Freedom. The first signs that something terrible had happened were the lights. The hospital was brightly lit through every corridor. In communist Hungary, electricity was yet another resource one learned to do without. Lights were used where they
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The true story of a Hungarian Jewish man’s fight for freedom originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 13, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Robert J. Wolf, MD Tags: Physician Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
How An A.I.-Based Skin Checking App Can Work With A National Healthcare System
You might be already familiar with skin checking apps, we too have discussed them quite extensively recently. Skin checking applications allow users to take pictures of their suspicious skin lesions, upload these pictures to a server, the images are first evaluated by an A.I. algorithm and the results will be later validated by a dermatologist.
However, this time there is something new under the sun: AIP Labs and Semmelweis University (Hungary’s leading medical university) developed a skin checking application that offers several features we have not seen before. It was launched to work integrated with the natio...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 8, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Telemedicine & Smartphones AI dermatology skin skin cancer skin checker skin checking app digital Source Type: blogs
