Cambridge: A recent study revealed that robots may be more effective than parent reported or self reported tests in diagnosing mental health disorders in youngsters. A team of roboticists, computer scientists and psychiatrists from the University of Cambridge carried out a study with 28 children between the ages of eight and 13 and had a … Read more
Washington : An artificial intelligence model was shown to be significantly more accurate than doctors at diagnosing pediatric ear infections in the first head-to-head evaluation of its kind. The tool, called OtoDx, was more than 95 per cent accurate in diagnosing an ear infection in a set of 22 test images compared to 65 per … Read more
Aug. 15, 2022 – When Spencer Siedlecki got COVID-19 in March 2021, he was sick for weeks with extreme fatigue, fevers, a sore throat, bad headaches, nausea, and eventually, pneumonia. That was scary enough for the then-13-year-old and his parents, who live in Ohio. More than a year later, Spencer, still had many of the … Read more
When John Cush, MD, started treating people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in the 1980s, doctors considered the disease to be caught early if they diagnosed it up to 8 years after patients first noticed their symptoms. “Eight years!” says Cush, a rheumatologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. “That’s an atrocious … Read more