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Opinion: Opportunistic CT: There’s gold in them there images

25.05.2023

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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First Opinion / Health Tech

Opinion: Will AI soon diagnose politicians’ mental health conditions from afar?

24.05.2023

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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First Opinion / Health Tech

Opinion: Three ways to test medical AI for safety

23.05.2023

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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First Opinion

Opinion: Starting breast cancer screening at 40 saved my life

17.05.2023

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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Health

FDA issues rare comment on approval of Covid and flu home test from company that went bankrupt

08.03.2023

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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First Opinion / Health Tech

Opinion: ChatGPT-assisted diagnosis: Is the future suddenly here?

13.02.2023

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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Coronavirus

What people on Medicare can expect once the Covid-19 public health emergency ends

09.02.2023

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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First Opinion

Opinion: Lessons learned from the deadly combination of sepsis and Covid-19

22.12.2022

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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Biotech / First Opinion

Opinion: Another Theranos crime: Loss of trust in real-time diagnostics

08.12.2022

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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