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Artificial intelligence can now predict long-term risks of heart attack and cardiac death

19.12.2019 Health Problems

A new study in Cardiovascular Research finds that machine learning, the patterns and inferences computers use to learn to perform tasks, can predict the long-term risk of heart attack and cardiac death. Indeed, machine learning appears to be better at predicting heart attacks and cardiac deaths than the standard clinical risk assessment used by cardiologists. Researchers here studied subjects from […]

Novel genetic signature that can predict some kinds of breast cancer is identified

18.12.2019 Health Problems

Researchers have identified a genetic signature with prognostic value for certain kinds of breast cancer. The discovery also contributes to a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms of pathological angiogenesis, the aberrant proliferation of blood vessels that occurs during cancer and other diseases. The research, published in the journal PLOS Genetics, combined a study of the genes involved in retinopathy, […]

Brain patterns can predict speech of words and syllables

10.12.2019 Health Problems

Neurons in the brain’s motor cortex previously thought of as active mainly during hand and arm movements also light up during speech in a way that is similar to patterns of brain activity linked to these movements, suggest new findings published today in eLife. By demonstrating that it is possible to identify different syllables or words from patterns of neural […]

Wearable device can predict aggressive outbursts in people with autism a minute in advance

27.08.2019 Health Problems

What would you do if you could predict the future a minute in advance? That might not seem like a long time, but for caretakers of people with autism, knowing what will happen 60 seconds from now could be enough time to prevent an aggressive outburst. To alert caretakers when stress levels are nearing the point of an aggressive episode, […]

Early EEG helps predict cardiac arrest outcomes in comatose

18.07.2019 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Early electroencephalography (EEG) reliably predicts the outcome of comatose patients after cardiac arrest, according to a study recently published in the Annals of Neurology. Barry J. Ruijter, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and colleagues assessed whether early EEG can reliably predict outcomes among comatose patients after cardiac arrest. Blinded reviewers assessed five-minute EEG epochs at […]

New research could help predict seizures before they happen

10.06.2019 Health Problems

A new study has found a pattern of molecules that appear in the blood before a seizure happens. This discovery may lead to the development of an early warning system, which would enable people with epilepsy to know when they are at risk of having a seizure. Researchers at FutureNeuro, the SFI Research Centre for Chronic and Rare Neurological Diseases, […]

Team develops test to predict immunotherapy response in kidney cancer

03.06.2019 Health Problems

A novel imaging test shows promise for identifying kidney cancer patients most likely to benefit from immunotherapy. In a study published today in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, investigators with the UT Southwestern Medical Center Kidney Cancer Program developed a new test to illuminate kidney cancers that may respond to checkpoint inhibitors. The strategy involved transforming an immunotherapy drug, […]

Want to Predict Your Baby's Sex? Try This

24.05.2019 Kids Health

Whether you want to find out the sex of your baby-to-be in advance is a personal decision every pregnant person has to make on their own (and/or with the help of a partner who is maybe being slowly crushed by the suspense of not knowing). You might be counting the days until your 20-week ultrasound to find out whether you’re […]

Researchers predict 1.4 million deaths from all cancers in 2019 in the EU

19.03.2019 Health Problems

Death rates from breast cancer are predicted to fall in all European Union (EU) countries in 2019 with the exception of Poland, according to new research published in the leading cancer journal Annals of Oncology today. In their annual predictions for cancer deaths in the EU, Carlo La Vecchia (MD), Professor at the School of Medicine, University of Milan (Italy), […]

AI and MRIs at birth can predict cognitive development at age two, study finds

15.03.2019 Health Problems

Researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine used MRI brain scans and machine learning techniques at birth to predict cognitive development at age 2 years with 95 percent accuracy. “This prediction could help identify children at risk for poor cognitive development shortly after birth with high accuracy,” said senior author John H. Gilmore, MD, Thad and Alice […]

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