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Portable Assay Offers Rapid, Low-Cost TB Diagnoses

Physician's Weekly

Researchers have engineered a portable “lab‑in‑tube” (LIT) assay that detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) DNA directly from blood, saliva, or sputum in less than 60 minutes at a relatively low cost, according to a study published in Science Translational Medicine. An estimated 4.2

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The Promise of the Medical Tricorder? Meet the Withings BeamO

The Medical Futurist

We’re witnessing the gradual shift from clinic-based testing to home-based diagnostics. Limitations and Caveats There are some caveats worth noting: Not yet a certified medical device in the EU or US, which means it cannot replace clinical diagnosis or be used in regulated medical workflows. BeamO is built for that future.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Running trials in animals will take additional engineering and safety tests. Experts even say the eye is an ideal place to start for the first clinical use of CRISPR. The fractal design was the most effective at this ‘herding’ of neurons and glia. The work is still early-stage, Taylor emphasises. and a specificity of 95.5%.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. Patients nowadays have evolved, so our ability to build and engineer AI systems to help people help themselves is going to be the future.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

4) Cureskin The artificial intelligence-based app was developed by two engineers previously working for Google , and it aims to compensate for the lack of dermatologists in India. 8) VisualDx Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and medical schools use VisualDx to aid diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

We learned this and much more, and I had a great time making engine noises singing the Woody Guthrie song “driving in my car.” . I don’t practice clinically in outpatient settings, and often the folks I’m seeing are there for other kinds of issues. Additional Links: (A to Z – under driving). OT programs).

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Alex: And joining us via Zoom, we have Charlotta Lindvall, who is a palliative care physician researcher who studies the intersection of natural language processing and communication data at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, where she also works in clinical informatics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta. Charlotta: Thank you. Eric: Yeah.

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