Tag: patient
Opinion: It's not just hype. AI could revolutionize diagnosis in medicine
The history of medical diagnosis is a march through painstaking observation. Ancient Egyptian physicians first diagnosed urinary tract infections by observing patterns...
Mounjaro bests Ozempic for weight loss in first head-to-head comparison of real-world use
In the first head-to-head comparison of two blockbuster drugs used in real-world conditions, people who took Mounjaro lost significantly more weight than...
Opinion: Abortion foes lost Round One on mifepristone. Here's how their fight continues
The Supreme Court’s mifepristone decision on June 13 put a stop to one challenge to the drug used in more than half...
Opinion: Surgeons give patients too many opioids. A few simple steps could curb excess prescribing
America’s opioid epidemic is as bad as it has ever been. Although the sharp increase in opioid overdose deaths over the last...
California plans to enlist AI to translate healthcare information
Tener gripe, tener gripa, engriparse, agriparse, estar agripado, estar griposo, agarrar la gripe, coger la influenza. In Spanish, there are at least...
New drug's potentially fatal side effects obscured by 'soothing acronym,' doctors say
Seventy-nine-year-old Genevieve Lane volunteered to take the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi in a clinical trial because she was forgetting words and misplacing her...