23 Articles about AI & Healthcare

Scientists to use AI to analyse 1.6m brain scans to develop tool predicting dementia risk – The Guardian

How AI Could Help Reduce Inequities in Health Care – Harvard Business Review

5 Challenges of AI in Healthcare – Unite AI 

California nurses protest ‘untested’ AI as it proliferates in health care – Health Care Journalism

What accelerates brain ageing? This AI ‘brain clock’ points to answers - Nature

How AI and accelerated computing are transforming drug discovery – Financial Times

How Often Do LLMs Hallucinate When Producing Medical Summaries? -Medcity News

The testing of AI in medicine is a mess. Here’s how it should be done - Nature

A.L.S. Stole His Voice. A.I. Retrieved It. – New York Times

AI tool outperforms existing x-ray structure methods - Chemistry World

A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time – BRG 

Artificial intelligence in scientific medical writing: Legitimate and deceptive uses and ethical concerns – Science Direct  

University of Florida researchers say they have developed a machine learning tool that can track the progression of Parkinson’s disease – Decrypt

MIT Researchers say they have developed an AI model that can accurately identify the stages of some types of breast cancer – MIT  

In Constant Battle With Insurers, Doctors Reach for a Cudgel: A.I. - New York Times 

First ‘bilingual’ brain-reading device decodes Spanish and English words -

Google Is Using A.I. to Answer Your Health Questions. Should You Trust It? - New York Times

Reconciling privacy and accuracy in AI for medical imaging – Nature

How A.I. Is Revolutionizing Drug Development - New York Times

OpenAI and Arianna Huffington are working together on an ‘AI health coach’ – The Verge

End-of-life decisions are difficult and distressing. Could AI help? – MIT Tech Review

States are writing their own rules for AI in health care  - Axios

The testing of AI in medicine is a mess. Here’s how it should be done - Nature

A Dozen Articles about AI & Health Care

DermaSensor: World's first AI-powered skin cancer detecting device – Interesting Engineering

How doctors are using AI to diagnose a hidden heart condition in kids – Washington Post

Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses - Nature

The startup that wants to cure diseases and slow aging, with the help of AI - Semafor 

Medical AI could be ‘dangerous’ for poorer nations, WHO warns – Nature

This AI was built to tell pastries apart. Now it's helping fight cancer - CNN

ML Model Predicts Complications Following Cardiovascular Interventions – Heath IT analytics

US FDA approves world's first AI-powered skin cancer detecting device - Interesting Engineering

AI helps predict antidepressant response in a week – Medical.net

Health-care AI: The potential and pitfalls of diagnosis by app – The Conversation

AI Predicts Alzheimer’s 7 Years Early – Neuroscience News

Could AI Predict Psychosis Before it Happens? – Psychology Today

15 Articles about The Potential Impact of AI on Medicine

Why AI Is Medicine’s Biggest Moment Since Antibiotics - Wall Street Journal  

I’m an ER doctor: Here’s what AI startups get wrong about “ChatGPT for telehealth” – Fast Company

Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried. – Washington Post

Deep Learning Model Detects Diabetes Using Routine Chest Radiographs – Health IT Analytics

AI Helps a Stroke Patient Speak Again, a Milestone for Tech and Neuroscience - New York Times

Google DeepMind’s AI Model Scours Our Genes to Guess Who Might Get Sick - Wall Street Journal

A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for chronic pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis - NBC Today Show

AI might be listening during your next health appointment - Axios

A step towards AI-based precision medicine - Science Daily

Is the Eye the Window to Alzheimer’s? New AI tools could diagnose the disease with visual scans - Wall Street Journal 

Predicting epileptic seizures with AI - RIU Research  

AI’s potential to accelerate drug discovery needs a reality check - Nature

An AI Tool That Can Help Forecast Viral Outbreaks – Harvard Medical School

Microsoft announces new AI tools to help doctors deliver better care – CNBC

New AI Tools Must Have Health Equity in Their DNA - JAMA Network

Does refusing to act your age delay aging?

In a UK study, researchers found "people who thought old age began earlier were more likely to have had a heart attack, to be suffering from heart disease or be in poor physical health generally when they were followed up six to nine years later."

Becca Levy of The Yale School of Public Health "followed more than a thousand people who were at least 50 at the time. She found that people who had positive ideas about their own ageing (who agreed with comments such as "I have as much pep as last year" and who disagreed that as you get older you get less useful) lived for an average of 22.6 years after they first participated in the study, while the people who felt less positively about ageing lived for just 15 years more on average."

Claudia Hammond writing for BBC Future suggests "People who think old age starts later in life may be more conscious about their health and fitness and therefore take active steps to stay in better shape. They think they are younger and so behave in younger ways, creating a virtuous circle."

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Why a Positive Attitude about Aging is Important

Our age beliefs can have a direct effect on our physiology. Elderly people who have been primed with negative age stereotypes tend to have higher systolic blood pressure in response to challenges, while those who have seen positive stereotypes demonstrate a more muted reaction. This makes sense: if you believe that you are frail and helpless, small difficulties will start to feel more threatening. Over the long term, this heightened stress response increases levels of the hormone cortisol and bodily inflammation, which could both raise the risk of ill health.

David Robson, The Expectation Effect: How your Mindset Can Transform Your Life

How your Attitude about Age affects your health

Recent findings suggest that age beliefs may play a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. Tracking 4,765 participants over four years, the researchers found that positive expectations of ageing halved the risk of developing the disease, compared to those who saw old age as an inevitable period of decline. Astonishingly, this was even true of people who carried a harmful variant of the APOE gene, which is known to render people more susceptible to the disease. The positive mindset can counteract an inherited misfortune, protecting against the build-up of the toxic plaques and neuronal loss that characterise the disease. 

David Robson, The Expectation Effect: How your Mindset Can Transform Your Life

The side of desire

When there’s a muddled message, you don’t err on the side of safety. You err on the side of desire. -Maria Konnikova, quoted in The Atlantic

Why Toilet Paper?

When people are told something dangerous is coming, but all you need to do is wash your hands, the action doesn't seem proportionate to the threat. The novel coronavirus is engendering a sort of survivalist psychology, where we must live as much as possible at home and thus must 'stock up' on essentials, and that certainly includes toilet paper. After all, if we run out of [toilet paper], what do we replace it with?

Stephen Taylor, The Psychology of Pandemics

Four simple words

During nearly 20 years writing about health, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with hundreds of top medical experts about how to live well. What I’ve learned from all of them can be summed up in four simple words.

Move. Nourish. Refresh. Connect.

Tara Parker-Pope writing in the New York Times

Stress can do a body good

Kelly McGonigal, a psychologist at Stanford University and the author of “The Upside of Stress”, helps people rethink stress by telling them that it is what we feel when something we care about is at stake. She asks them to make two lists: of things that stress them; and of things that matter to them. “People realise that if they eliminated all stress their lives would not have much meaning,” she says. “We need to give up the fantasy that you can have everything you want without stress.”

In 2012 a group of scientists in America looked back at the 1998 National Health Interview Survey, which included questions about how much stress the 30,000 participants had experienced in the previous year, and whether they believed stress harmed their health. Next, they pored over mortality records to find out which respondents had died. They found that those who both reported high stress and believed it was harming their health had a 43% higher risk of premature death. Those who reported high stress but did not believe it was hurting them were less likely to die early than those who reported little stress.

The study shows correlation, not causation. But since much stress is unavoidable, working out how to harness it may be wiser than fruitless attempts to banish it.

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