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First Opinion / Health Tech

Opinion: 3 ways the life sciences industries can eliminate bias in AI

16.02.2021

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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Health Tech

Could AI tools for breast cancer worsen disparities? Patchy public data in FDA filings fuel concern

11.02.2021

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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Health Tech

‘Slippery slope territory’: Health officials propose waiving regulatory review of medical AI tools

16.01.2021

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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Coronavirus / Health / Health Tech

New cancer patients — especially Black people — are more susceptible to severe Covid-19 infections

10.12.2020

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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Coronavirus

AstraZeneca’s confusing vaccine data, biotech in 2021, and a guide to the ASH conference

04.12.2020

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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Health Tech

DeepMind’s protein-folding AI stuns with a solution to one of biology’s biggest challenges

30.11.2020

At the start of a biennial contest to predict the structure of proteins, the expectations for Google’s artificial intelligence unit DeepMind couldn’t have been higher. Think Mike Tyson in the …

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Coronavirus / Health Tech

Health systems are using AI to predict severe Covid-19 cases. But limited data could produce unreliable results

18.11.2020

As the United States braces for a bleak winter, hospital systems across the country are ramping up their efforts to develop AI systems to predict how likely their Covid-19 patients …

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First Opinion

Opinion: A nudge helps doctors bring up end-of-life issues with their dying cancer patients

16.11.2020

Imagine this scenario, one that’s not uncommon for people diagnosed with incurable cancer: You and your cancer doctor decide that you should try chemotherapy to prolong your life. Six months …

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Health Tech

At Google Brain, a computer scientist focuses on data so doctors can focus on their patients instead

16.11.2020

The artificial intelligence Maithra Raghu studies at Google Brain doesn’t have a bedside manner. But she’s betting it can still help restore a deeply human, disappearing aspect of modern medicine: …

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