Cold medicine shortage blamed on lack of government planning
Pharmacies say there are supply chain issues with some products but people should not panic buy. Source link
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Patna: Artificial intelligence a boon for medical field, says experts – ET HealthWorld
Patna : The three-day workshop on ‘Artificial intelligence for healthcare technology and management’, organised by IIT-Patna under its continuing education programme concluded here on Sunday with a call to serve humanity with the application of advanced technology in the healthcare system. Highlighting the ever-increasing importance of artificial intelligence in day-to-day life, IIT-Patna director T N … Read more
‘Leap forward’ in tailored cancer medicine
Patients’ own immune systems redesigned to attack their own cancer in US study. Source link
Blood-Sucking Leeches: Quack Medicine or Medical Miracle?
Pity the poor leech. For more than a century, it has been a poster child for the once-decrepit state of medicine. Nothing illustrates the relative backwardness of pre-20th century health care than the image of a hapless patient covered in bloodsuckers, or the cringe-inducing curios that draw spectators to medical museums, like the vaginal speculums … Read more
Metaverse Medicine and the Doctor, Patient Avatars Ahead
Aug. 12, 2022 — In what some are calling the next iteration of the internet, the metaverse is an unfamiliar digital world where you could be an avatar navigating computer-generated places and interacting with others in real time. In this space, the constraints of our physical, bricks and mortar world and travel habits fade. And … Read more
Medicine, AI, and Bias: Will Bad Data Undermine Good Tech?
May 18, 2022 – Imagine walking into the Library of Congress, with its millions of books, and having the goal of reading them all. Impossible, right? Even if you could read every word of every work, you wouldn’t be able to remember or understand everything, even if you spent a lifetime trying. Now let’s say … Read more
Exercise Is Powerful Medicine for Depression
People should try to move a little every day, Heisz suggested. Maybe it’s a five-minute or 10-minute walk. It could be a two-minute movement break every 30 minutes for people who sit all day. “That’s how simple we need to get, especially for people who are not moving at all, and to acknowledge … Read more
Homeopathy: Do ‘Cherry-Picked?’ Studies Exaggerate Benefits?
Traditional medicine practitioners often decry the use of anecdote over consistent evidence-based medicine to support homeopathic remedies. Still, an estimated 6 million Americans, or about 2% of the population, regularly uses homeopathic treatments. Source link
Matching drugs to DNA is ‘new era of medicine’
Testing can predict if drugs will work, fail or become deadly, depending on differences in our make-up. Source link
No COVID Vax, No Transplant: Unfair or Good Medicine?
Silas Prescod Norman, MD, clinical associate professor of nephrology and internal medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; medical adviser, American Kidney Fund. Dana J. Ufkes, Realtor, Seattle. Arthur Caplan, PhD, director, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU Langone Medical Center and School of Medicine, New York City. Anne Paschke, spokesperson, United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). … Read more