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Brain imaging study reveals synaptic mechanisms of learning
How do we learn something new? How do tasks at a new job, lyrics to the latest hit song or directions to a friend's house become encoded in our brains? The broad answer is that our brains undergo adaptations to accommodate ...
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Can AI tell if you'll stick to your workout? New study says it might
Sticking to an exercise routine is a challenge many people face. But a University of Mississippi research team is using machine learning to uncover what keeps individuals committed to their workouts.
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Algorithm pinpoints potential disease-causing variants in non-coding regions of human genome
Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine) have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which ...
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Personalized predictive model improves risk assessment for coronary artery disease
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the United States. Although effective preventive treatments exist, these measures are often underutilized, in part because people don't know they're at risk of ...
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US, Europe diverge on infectious disease messaging
In both the United States and Europe, two public health agencies aim to fight the spread of infectious diseases.
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Research reveals patient attitudes toward devices like smartwatches
Last year, two popular smartwatches—the Samsung Galaxy Watch and Apple Watch—received Food and Drug Administration approval for features that can potentially alert the wearer that they may have sleep apnea.
Apr 16, 2025
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To keep high-risk patients out of the hospital, at-home monitoring shows promise in new study
For someone with heart failure, very high blood pressure, or severe COVID-19, going home from the hospital can feel like falling off a cliff.
Apr 16, 2025
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AI-powered model predicts post-concussion injury risk in college athletes
Athletes who suffer a concussion have a serious risk of reinjury after returning to play, but identifying which athletes are most vulnerable has always been a bit of a mystery, until now.
Apr 16, 2025
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A visual pathway in the brain may do more than recognize objects
When visual information enters the brain, it travels through two pathways that process different aspects of the input. For decades, scientists have hypothesized that one of these pathways, the ventral visual stream, is responsible ...
Apr 15, 2025
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AI in health care is not a standalone solution, researchers caution
With the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), predictive medicine is becoming an important part of health care, especially in cancer treatment. Predictive medicine uses algorithms and data to help doctors understand how ...
Apr 15, 2025
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Health apps missing the mark: Few target India's heart disease challenge
Smartphones are changing the way people manage their health—but when it comes to heart disease in India, app stores are lagging far behind. Despite heart disease being the country's leading cause of death, accounting for ...
Apr 15, 2025
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Researcher uses virtual reality to help pharmacists improve diabetes care
For many of the almost 40 million people in the U.S. who live with diabetes, monitoring blood sugar levels multiple times a day can make the difference between good health and serious heart, kidney, nerve and eye problems.
Apr 15, 2025
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AI recreates the motion of a beating heart using surface electrical recordings
Researchers from Rutgers Health and RWJBarnabas Health have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that transforms basic electrocardiogram (ECG) readings of electrical activity into sophisticated heart motion ...
Apr 14, 2025
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AI-powered video analysis tool improves monitoring of Parkinson's movement symptoms
A University of Florida researcher has developed an open-source computer program that uses artificial intelligence to analyze videos of patients with Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. The tool, called VisionMD, ...
Apr 14, 2025
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AI-guided lung ultrasound marks an advance in tuberculosis diagnosis
A study presented at ESCMID Global 2025 has demonstrated that an AI-powered lung ultrasound outperforms human experts by 9% in diagnosing pulmonary tuberculosis (TB).
Apr 13, 2025
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New AI chatbot for parents improves HPV vaccine uptake
The first trial of an AI-powered chatbot designed to inform parents about the HPV vaccine has shown that it increases vaccine uptake and engagement with health professionals.
Apr 11, 2025
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AI-generated 'synthetic scarred hearts' aid atrial fibrillation treatment
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have developed an AI tool that creates synthetic yet medically accurate models of fibrotic heart tissue (heart scarring), aiding treatment planning for atrial fibrillation ...
Apr 11, 2025
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Data-sparse model opens door to personalized nutrition—without the need for pesky samples
If you eat a snack—a meatball, say, or a marshmallow—how will it affect your blood sugar? It's a surprisingly tricky question; the body's glycemic response to different foods varies based on individual genetics, microbiomes, ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Fill-in-the-blank training primes AI to interpret health data from smartwatches and fitness trackers
The human body constantly generates a variety of signals that can be measured from outside the body with wearable devices. These bio-signals—ranging from heart rate to sleep state and blood oxygen levels—can indicate ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Leave no patient behind: New AI model can help identify patients in need of care management services
Artificial Intelligence is helping UC Davis Health predict which patients may need immediate care and eventually keep them from being hospitalized.
Apr 10, 2025
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For the first time, scientists map the half-billion connections that allow mice to see
After nine years of painstaking work, an international team of researchers on Wednesday published a precise map of the vision centers of a mouse brain, revealing the exquisite structures and functional systems of mammalian ...
Apr 9, 2025
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AI models of the brain could serve as 'digital twins' in research
Much as a pilot might practice maneuvers in a flight simulator, scientists might soon be able to perform experiments on a realistic simulation of the mouse brain. In a new study, Stanford Medicine researchers and collaborators ...
Apr 9, 2025
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Using pulsed infrared light to find cancer's 'fingerprints' in blood plasma
Cancer diagnoses traditionally require invasive or labor-intensive procedures such as tissue biopsies. Now, research published in ACS Central Science reveals a method that uses pulsed infrared light to identify molecular ...
Apr 9, 2025
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AI method outperforms current standard in predicting antibiotic resistance
Drug-resistant infections—especially from deadly bacteria like tuberculosis and staph—are a growing global health crisis. These infections are harder to treat, often require more expensive or toxic medications and are ...
Apr 7, 2025
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AI optimizes antibodies to tackle evolving SARS-CoV-2 variants
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with other leading institutions, have successfully used an AI-driven platform to preemptively optimize an antibody to neutralize a broad diversity ...
Apr 7, 2025
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