Predicting trends and offering suggestions to help systems work more efficiently are both features of current artificial intelligence platforms, and Connecticut health experts are seeking new ways to make the technology work to improve care.
In a discovery that could reshape how we view and understand the human brain, researchers have successfully passed a laser beam through an entire human head. While it may sound like science fiction, this quiet milestone could pave the way for faster, cheaper, and noninvasive brain scans.
Women’s and family health platform Maven Clinic is partnering with smart ring maker Oura, a step forward in the integration of the increasing amount of data being collected by wearable devices and clinical care.
A new Johns Hopkins study, published in Cancer Discovery and partly funded by the NIH, found that genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years prior to a cancer diagnosis. The researchers analyzed plasma samples from a large Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study to assess risk factors for heart attack, stroke, heart failure and other cardiovascular diseases.
Fernando da Silva, who lives in the southern African nation of Angola, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in March. Three months later, he underwent a procedure to cut out the cancer from a surgeon who has done tens of thousands of similar procedures. But the doctor performing the surgery was 7,000 miles away -- in Orlando, Florida. Da Silva was the first patient of a groundbreaking human clinical trial approved by the FDA to test transcontinental robotic telesurgery.