People with quadriplegia can feed themselves and brush their teeth thanks to nerve surgery – and doctors say it’s time to make the surgery more widely available Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2208867-nerve-surgery-helps-people-with-paralysis-control-their-hands-and-arms/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tag: Doctors
Scientists Took an MRI Scan of an Atom
The hospital technology, typically used to identify human ailments, captured perhaps the world’s smallest magnetic resonance image. weiserfireman shares a report: Different microscopy techniques allow scientists to see the nucleotide-by-nucleotide genetic sequences in cells down to the resolution of a couple atoms as seen in an atomic force microscopy image. But scientists at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose,…
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes To Stand Trial In 2020
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the now-defunct biotech unicorn Theranos, will face trial in federal court next summer with penalties of up to 20 years in prison and millions of dollars in fines. Jury selection will begin July 28, 2020, according to U.S. District Judge Edward J. Davila, who announced the trial will…
AIs that diagnose diseases are starting to assist and replace doctors
Digital doctors are already in use, but there are big questions about how they work. Are we ready for the rise of AI healthcare? Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24232363-000-ais-that-diagnose-diseases-are-starting-to-assist-and-replace-doctors/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Are Medical IDs ‘The Enemy of Privacy, Liberty, and Health’?
83-year-old former U.S. Senatior Ron Paul has published a new editorial on Zero Hedge: Last week, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education appropriations bill amendment to repeal the prohibition on the use of federal funds to create a ‘unique patient identifier.’ Unless this prohibition, which I originally sponsored in 1998, is…
Artificial intelligence could spot early signs of schizophrenia
Years before schizophrenia can be diagnosed by doctors, artificial intelligence may be able to detect early signs of the condition in people’s speech Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207300-artificial-intelligence-could-spot-early-signs-of-schizophrenia/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Robocalls Are Overwhelming Hospitals and Patients, Threatening a New Kind of Health Crisis
An anonymous reader shares a report: In the heart of Boston, Tufts Medical Center treats scores of health conditions, from administering measles vaccines for children to pioneering next-generation tools that can eradicate the rarest of cancers. But doctors, administrators and other hospital staff struggled to contain a much different kind of epidemic one April morning last year: a wave of thousands…
Why ‘Ambient Computing’ Is Just A Marketing Buzzword — For Now
An anonymous reader quotes Computerworld columnist Mike Elgan: Ambient computing is real. It’s the next megatrend in computing…. To interact in an “ambient computing” context means to not care and not even necessarily know where exactly the devices are that you’re interacting with. When IoT devices and sensors are all around us, and artificial intelligence can understand human contexts for what’s…
‘Medicine Needs To Embrace Open Source’
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols from ZDNet argues that “the expensive and abusive pharmaceutical industry needs to open up to improve everyone’s health.” An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report: Now, I know little about creating and testing drugs. Here’s what I do know: Open source and data produces better results than proprietary methods. In technology, the field I know best,…
Privacy Policies Are Essentially Impossible To Understand, Study Finds
The data market has become the engine of the internet, and privacy policies we agree to but don’t fully understand help fuel it. From a report: To see exactly how inscrutable they have become, I analyzed the length and readability of privacy policies from nearly 150 popular websites and apps. Facebook’s privacy policy, for example, takes around 18 minutes to read…