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As an ICU physician, Leo Anthony Celi knows the immense power health data can hold. If it’s harnessed thoughtfully, it could speed diagnoses and drive better care. And if it …
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Somewhere in Peter Maercklein’s heartbeat was an abnormality no one could find. He survived a stroke 15 years ago, but doctors never saw anything alarming on follow-up electrocardiograms. Then, one …
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For many people with hearing loss, a normal conversation at a busy restaurant is the holy grail. “[Background noise] is the number one problem that needs to be solved,” said …
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued an emergency authorization for a new test to detect Covid-19 infections — one that stands apart from the hundreds already authorized. Unlike …
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Advances in the life sciences over the past decade have made it possible to manipulate genetic codes on the molecular level. Devices can see inside the human body with a …
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The great hope of artificial intelligence in breast cancer is that it can distinguish harmless lesions from those likely to become malignant. By scanning millions of pixels, AI promises to …
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Days before leaving office, President Trump’s top health official is proposing to permanently exempt from regulatory review a wide swath of artificial intelligence products used to help physicians detect serious …
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Recently diagnosed cancer patients are more vulnerable to Covid-19 infection and face more severe illness than people without cancer, a risk that is significantly higher for Black people than for …
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Can too much Covid-19 vaccine be a bad thing? Is biotech in a bubble? And how do you make blind mice see again? We discuss all that and more on …
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