Vaccine innovation sparks hope, questions

Reports that one of the vaccines for COVID-19 has shown highly promising results are a ray of hope for a world in the shadow of surging virus cases. But does it mean the pandemic is coming to an end? Not so fast, experts say, with many questions remaining about who it will protect and for […]

Osteoporosis is underdiagnosed and undertreated in older men

A new study reveals that many older men who experience a fracture are still underdiagnosed with and undertreated for osteoporosis. Details of the study was presented at ACR Convergence, the American College Rheumatology’s annual meeting (ABSTRACT #0533). Osteoporosis is a common condition that results from a loss of bone mass, measured as bone density, and […]

Flu season is off to a slow start; COVID-19 precautions may be helping

As coronavirus surges in much of the United States, that other virus we start to worry about this time of year—flu—is slowly starting its annual invasion. There have been a few cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but the numbers are still low, as they are in most of the country. This could be because […]

What leading AMCs can teach about using EHRs for COVID-19 response

A report published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association examined the ways in which 15 academic medical centers leveraged their electronic health records to address the COVID-19 pandemic – and the ways in which existing initiatives have fallen short.   “EHRs contain many important data elements that can help with […]

New form of brain-training helps prevent relapse after alcohol treatment

A recent study has shown that it may be possible to dampen the workings of the subconscious brain to prevent alcohol relapse, the results leading to a world-first trial of a personalized smartphone app called “SWiPE.” Cognitive Bias Modification, a new form of computerized brain-training, is focused on training the brain to automatically avoid alcohol […]

Google Cloud unveils AI tools to help healthcare analyze unstructured medical text

Google Cloud pulled back the curtain yesterday on two artificial intelligence tools designed to help healthcare and life science organizations scan and analyze large volumes of unstructured text, the Healthcare Natural Language API and AutoML Entity Extraction for Healthcare. The first of these two offerings looks to automatically extract common trends or other insights from medical […]

Drug-Linked Endogenous Endophthalmitis Hospitalizations Up

MONDAY, Nov. 9, 2020 — From 2003 to 2016, there was a considerable increase in drug-related endogenous endophthalmitis hospitalizations in the United States, according to a study published online Nov. 5 in JAMA Ophthalmology. Tahreem A. Mir, M.D., from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues conducted a nationwide, retrospective cross-sectional […]

Illinois daily coronavirus cases surpass 10,000 for 4th day

Fox News Flash top headlines for November 9 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. For the fourth day, cases of COVID-19 in Illinois have surpassed 10,000, state data shows. Cases first surpassed the 10,000 mark on Friday. As of Sunday, daily news cases were still above 10,000, with more […]