As AI Eye Exams Prove Their Worth, Lessons for Future Tech Emerge
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Christian Espinoza, director of a Southern California drug-treatment provider, recently began employing a powerful new assistant: an artificial intelligence algorithm that can perform eye exams with pictures taken by a retinal camera. It makes quick diagnoses, without a doctor prese…
Could a 'DNA Diet' Help to Reduce Health Risks Linked to High Blood Sugar?
https://reachmd.com/news/could-a-dna-diet-help-to-reduce-health-risks-linked-to-high-blood-sugar/2457470/
Breakdown of each study arm. Credit: Scientific Reports (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-55105-6 A U.K. trial has found a DNA-tailored diet could help manage blood glucose and reduce risk of progressin…
How Electricity Can Heal Wounds 3x as Fast
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Chronic wounds are a major health problem for diabetic patients and the elderly -- in extreme cases they can even lead to amputation. Using electric stimulation, researchers in a project at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and the University of Freiburg, Germany, have developed a method t…
Harnessing ChatGPT and GPT-4 for Evaluating the Rheumatology Questions of the Spanish Access Exam to Specialized Medical Training
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In this study, we have evaluated the accuracy and clinical reasoning of two LLM in answering rheumatology questions from Spanish official medical exams. To our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate the usefulness of LLM applied to the training of medical students with a special focus on rh…
Light or Moderate Alcohol Consumption Does Not Protect Against Endocrine Conditions
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People who have just one or two drinks per day are not protected against endocrine conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Alcohol consumption is a significant publ…
Mary Katherine Cheeley, PharmD, BCPS, CLS, FNLA
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Mary Katherine Cheeley, PharmD, BCPS, CLS, FNLA is a clinical pharmacist specialist in primary care at Grady Health System in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Cheeley practices in the outpatient internal medicine clinics, lipid clinic and diabetes clinic. She is an active member of the National Lipid Association…
Wendy S. Lane, MD
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Dr. Lane is a Clinical Endocrinologist/Director of Clinical Research at Mountain Diabetes and Endocrine Center in Asheville, NC. She is recognized for her expertise in insulin pump therapy and management of insulin resistance. Dr. Lane frequently consults for pharmaceutical and bio-tech companies …
Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD
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Jose Florez and his group have contributed to the performance and analysis of high-throughput genomic studies in type 2 diabetes, related traits and complications, in international consortia such as MAGIC, GENIE, DIAGRAM, T2D-GENES, AMP-T2D and SIGMA. He leads the genetic research initiative of the…
Fatty Liver Was a Disease of the Old. Then Kids Started Getting Sick
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EL CAJON, Calif. â When doctors told Carmen Hurtado that her 8-year-old was sick with a condition known as fatty liver disease, her first reaction was not fear. It was confusion.Dani was a happy, active child, and other than putting on some weight the previous year, nothing appeared wrong with he…
Surgery Most Effective Treatment of Metabolic Liver Disease
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A new paper, published today in The Lancet by King’s and the Catholic University of Rome, is the first to compare three active treatments of non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) and to specifically investigate the effectiveness of metabolic surgery (weight loss surg…