Opinion: Opportunistic CT: There’s gold in them there images
More than 80 million CT scans are performed each year in the U.S. alone. In fact, most Americans have had a CT scan by the time they reach age 60, …
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Opinion: Will AI soon diagnose politicians’ mental health conditions from afar?
For psychiatrists, Donald Trump’s third run for the presidency means that we’ll once again face the challenge of diagnosis: Should we, or shouldn’t we? For 50 years, the American Psychiatric …
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Opinion: Three ways to test medical AI for safety
This article is adapted from “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond,” by Peter Lee, Carey Goldberg, and Isaac Kohane, published by Pearson. “Thrashing.” That’s what old-school computer scientists …
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Opinion: Starting breast cancer screening at 40 saved my life
In 2015, the year I turned 40, the American Cancer Society updated its guidelines for breast cancer screenings. Instead of urging women to get mammograms beginning at 40, it would …
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FDA issues rare comment on approval of Covid and flu home test from company that went bankrupt
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization for the first at-home Covid-19 and flu combination test. The news came just days after the test’s maker, Lucira, …
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Opinion: ChatGPT-assisted diagnosis: Is the future suddenly here?
The notion that people will regularly use computers to diagnose their own illnesses has been discussed for decades. Of course, millions of people try to do that today, consulting Dr. …
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What people on Medicare can expect once the Covid-19 public health emergency ends
WASHINGTON — People with Medicare will pay more for some Covid-19 tests and treatments after the public health emergency ends, according to the agency that oversees the program. The Biden …
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Opinion: Lessons learned from the deadly combination of sepsis and Covid-19
Sepsis, a deadly overreaction of the immune system to infection, has befuddled clinicians and researchers for decades. Covid-19 made things worse. The early signs and symptoms of sepsis mimic those …
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Opinion: Another Theranos crime: Loss of trust in real-time diagnostics
Ramesh Balwani, the chief operating officer of Theranos, was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly 13 years in prison for defrauding investors and patients about the company’s technology. Elizabeth Holmes, his …
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