Health Informatics

New research has uncovered critical gaps in an emerging global public health tool for detecting environmental fecal contamination—which is linked to life-threatening diarrheal diseases that cause 1.2 million deaths each year.... Read more

Researchers at the Ernst Strüngmann Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, led by Wolf Singer, have made a new discovery in understanding fundamental brain processes. For the first time, the team has provided compelling evidence that the brain's characteristic rhythmic patterns play a crucial role in information processing. While these... Read more

Tuberculosis is a serious global health threat that infected more than 10 million people in 2022. Spread through the air and into the lungs, the pathogen that causes "TB" can lead to chronic cough, chest pains, fatigue, fever and weight loss. While infections are more extensive in other parts of... Read more

Mayo Clinic researchers have pioneered an artificial intelligence (AI) tool, called OmicsFootPrint, that helps convert vast amounts of complex biological data into two-dimensional circular images. The details of the tool are published in a study in Nucleic Acids Research.... Read more

One of the most agonizing experiences a cancer patient suffers is waiting without knowing: waiting for a diagnosis, waiting to get test results back, waiting to learn the outcome of treatment protocols. A new paper published in Scientific Reports evaluates the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks to... Read more

Using a pioneering artificial intelligence platform, Flinders University researchers have assessed whether a cardiac AI tool recently trialed in South Australian hospitals actually has the potential to assist doctors and nurses to rapidly diagnose heart issues in emergency departments.... Read more

A new study published by an interdisciplinary team of researchers, including several from the University of Florida, suggests prediction models used by decision makers in attempting to control the spread of COVID-19 were incomplete.... Read more

After combing through 4,000 existing medications, an artificial intelligence tool helped uncover one that saved the life of a patient with idiopathic multicentric Castleman's disease (iMCD). This rare disease has an especially poor survival rate and few treatment options. The patient could be the first of many to have their... Read more

School closures reduced the impact of COVID-19 in most countries but had negative effects in some, Monash University-led research encompassing 74 countries has found.... Read more

Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots are getting pretty good at diagnosing some diseases, but how do chatbots do when the questions are less black-and-white? For example, how long before surgery should a patient stop taking prescribed blood thinners? Should a patient's treatment protocol change if they've had adverse reactions to similar drugs... Read more

The words "artificial intelligence" are now ubiquitous, their influence having risen dramatically in recent years and their impact being felt in health care and many other job sectors. In health care, artificial intelligence, or AI, has the potential to make drug discovery faster and cheaper and improve diagnoses and treatments.... Read more

The existing prediction models for severe complications of preeclampsia are most accurate only in the two days after hospital admission, with deteriorating performance over time, according to a study published February 4 in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine by Henk Groen of University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and colleagues.... Read more

A new computational tool could help researchers identify promising drug combinations for treating cancer, according to a new study.... Read more

Addressing patients' health-related social needs such as housing instability, food insecurity, transportation barriers and financial strain is important to improving health outcomes, yet can be challenging. A recent study from Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University Indianapolis Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health investigates the best approach to predicting likely... Read more

New research results now published from Lund University's MASAI trial are even better than the initial findings from last year: AI-supported breast screening detected 29% more cases of cancer compared with traditional screening. More invasive cancers were also clearly detected at an early stage using AI. Now the final part... Read more