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How AI Is Changing Medical Imaging to Improve Patient Care
That doctors can peer into the human body without making a single incision once seemed like a miraculous concept. But medical imaging in radiology has come a long way, and the latest artificial intelligence (AI)-driven techniques are going much further: exploiting the massive computing abilities of AI and machine learning to mine body scans for differences that even the human eye can miss.
Imaging in medicine now involves sophisticated ways of analyzing every data point to distinguish disease from health and signal from noise. If the first few decades of radiology were about refining the resolution of the pictures taken of...
Source: TIME: Health - November 4, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Video by Andrew D. Johnson Tags: Uncategorized Frontiers of Medicine 2022 healthscienceclimate Innovation sponsorshipblock Source Type: news
FDA Approves Lecanemab, a New Alzheimer ’s Drug
On Jan. 6, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new drug to treat Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages.
Lecanemab, which will be available under the name Leqembi, can slow the cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease by 27%, according to data submitted to the FDA by the drug’s developers, Eisai and Biogen. It’s only the second medication to show any improvement in neurodegeneration, a key criterion in the FDA’s consideration for approval.
“For a long time, this is what we have been looking for,” says Dr. Sam Gandy, professor of neurology and psychi...
Source: TIME: Health - January 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Drugs healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
FDA Experts Vote to Make All COVID-19 Vaccines and Boosters Bivalent
In a unanimous decision, all 21 voting members of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) vaccine committee recommended that the U.S. start using the same COVID-19 virus strain in all of the COVID-19 vaccines, including primary and booster doses.
That means the bivalent booster dose, which targets both the original SARS-CoV-2 strain and the Omicron BA.4/5 strains, would soon become the only type used for all primary shots and boosters.
The decision reflects a turning point in the pandemic. Until now, vaccine makers have tried to keep up with constantly evolving variants, but they’ve always been a few step...
Source: TIME: Health - January 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Here ’s an Alternative to Statins for Lowering Cholesterol
Statins have revolutionized heart disease by lowering cholesterol effectively—by up to 50% or more. But anywhere from 7% to 29% of people who take them may be more susceptible to its side effects, which include weakening of muscles and pain, and decide they can’t tolerate them. In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, for example, researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital reported that more than 20% of patients seen at the hospital from 2000 to 2018 who were recommended to take statins refused to take them, and those who refused took three times as long to lower their LDL cholesterol to target ...
Source: TIME: Health - March 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate heart health Source Type: news
FDA says new cholesterol drugs may not need outcome studies
(Reuters) - Members of an experimental class of cholesterol-lowering drugs could get U.S. regulatory approval based on their ability to lower "bad" cholesterol, and may not need to show that they reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke, the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday.
Source: Reuters: Health - November 15, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
FDA against using daily aspirin to prevent a first heart attack
Alex CukanWASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said only those who had suffered a heart attack or stroke benefited from a low-dose daily aspirin.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - May 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA says asthma drug Xolair raises risk of heart, brain problems
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The asthma drug Xolair is associated with a higher risk of heart attack, mini-stroke, chest pain and blood clots in the lungs and veins, among other problems, though the extent of increased risk is unclear, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
Source: Reuters: Health - September 26, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
FDA panel offers mixed view on Boston Scientific Watchman device
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration offered a mixed view of Boston Scientific Corp's Watchman heart device on Wednesday, concluding it is probably safe but not particularly effective in reducing the risk of stroke in patients with a certain type of irregular heart beat.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 8, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
FDA panel backs Daiichi's blood thinner
(Reuters) - A panel of advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration voted 9-1 in favor of approving Japanese drugmaker Daiichi Sankyo Co's blood clot and stroke preventer for use in some patients with atrial fibrillation.
Source: Reuters: Health - October 30, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Drugs Using Testosterone Will Label Heart Risks
The F.D.A. ordered that labels on testosterone drugs warn of heart attack and stroke risks, and advised that the drugs should not be prescribed to treat symptoms in men brought on by age, such as declining sexual drive.
Source: NYT Health - March 4, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: By SABRINA TAVERNISE Tags: Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Food and Drug Administration Labeling and Labels Testosterone Source Type: news
Boston Scientific gets U.S. OK for Watchman heart device
(Reuters) - Boston Scientific Corp said on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its device to prevent stroke in patients with a dangerous irregular heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation (AF).
Source: Reuters: Health - March 13, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
FDA strengthens warning label for certain anti-inflammatory drugs
(Reuters) - The U.S. food and Drug Administration said it was strengthening an existing warning label that non-aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke.
Source: Reuters: Health - July 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
F.D.A. Is Set to Toughen Nonaspirin Warnings
Labels on painkillers like ibuprofen that are taken by millions of Americans will be subtly changed to say that they cause an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
Source: NYT Health - July 10, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SABRINA TAVERNISE Tags: Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Food and Drug Administration Labeling and Labels (Product) Source Type: news
Experts Urge Sparing Use of Nonaspirin Painkillers
The Food and Drug Administration said it would ask drug manufacturers to change the labels to reflect evidence that nonaspirin, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Source: NYT Health - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: SABRINA TAVERNISE Tags: Pain-Relieving Drugs Heart Aleve (Drug) Celebrex (Drug) Drugs (Pharmaceuticals) Motrin IB Food and Drug Administration Labeling and Labels (Product) Stroke Ibuprofen (Drug) Source Type: news
South Carolina Is FED UP
When asked to speak for a group of third and fourth graders about making "healthy choices," I picked the topic that most children have in common ... sugar! I began our discussion with one simple question.
"If your parents came into the room and saw you eating out of the sugar bowl, what would they say?"
One young man stated it best. "Are you crazy? Put that spoon down!"
"Why would your parents say that?" I asked.
Another little girl could barely contain herself. Waving her hand furiously she blurted out, "Because all that sugar is bad for you!"
Out of the mouths of babes. When I talk to children, teens or adults,...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
