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  1. AI in health and medicine

    We discuss key findings from a 2-year weekly effort to track and share key developments in medical AI. We cover prospective studies and advances in medical image analysis, which have reduced the ...

  2. Medical research

    Medical research involves research in a wide range of fields, such as biology, chemistry, pharmacology and toxicology with the goal of developing new medicines or medical procedures or improving ...

  3. Advances in vaccines: revolutionizing disease prevention

    Metrics. Vaccines have revolutionized modern medicine by preventing infectious diseases and safeguarding public health. This Collection showcases cutting-edge research on advancements in vaccine ...

  4. Here are some of the biggest medical advances in 2023

    Here are some of the biggest medical advances in 2023. New treatments include the first CRISPR gene-editing therapy, an Alzheimer's drug and RSV vaccines. In March, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

  5. Revolutionising health care: Exploring the latest advances in medical

    This article examines some of the most recent developments in medical research and how they might completely change health care delivery. The selection process for identifying the latest advances in medical sciences for this article was as follows. We aimed to showcase ground-breaking developments with the potential to revolutionise health care ...

  6. Artificial Intelligence: How is It Changing Medical Sciences and Its

    Abstract. Artificially intelligent computer systems are used extensively in medical sciences. Common applications include diagnosing patients, end-to-end drug discovery and development, improving communication between physician and patient, transcribing medical documents, such as prescriptions, and remotely treating patients.

  7. These 10 medical breakthroughs will change the world

    This work has already saved the lives of adults and children with untreatable blood cancers, and sights are set on tougher targets including breast, prostate, colon, ovarian and pancreatic cancer. 8. New vaccinesIn the next 10 years, important strides will be made in preventing HIV, flu and other infectious diseases.

  8. 7 incredible medical breakthroughs that changed the world

    For a more recent big breakthrough in the medical field, you don't need to look any further than gene therapy, which involves introducing genetic material into cells to treat or prevent disease. The very first gene therapy trial was launched in 1990, successfully treating a then four-year-old girl with a rare genetic disease that severely ...

  9. 5 innovations that are revolutionizing global healthcare

    Here are five innovations that are pushing even more boundaries in healthcare. Artificial intelligence (AI) The use of algorithms and machine learning in detecting, diagnosing and treating disease has become a significant area of life sciences. Some believe it is the biggest healthcare revolution of the 21st century.

  10. Recent Developments in Health Technology

    Recent Developments in Health Technology. In times of crisis, immense creativity often comes to the fore, precipitating major changes. This has been the case in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID ...

  11. Cancer Biology, Epidemiology, and Treatment in the 21st Century

    Introduction. During the last one hundred years, our understanding of the biology of cancer increased in an extraordinary way. 1-4 Such a progress has been particularly prompted during the last few decades because of technological and conceptual progress in a variety of fields, including massive next-generation sequencing, inclusion of "omic" sciences, high-resolution microscopy, molecular ...

  12. Digital health: trends, opportunities and challenges in medical devices

    Digital health is a rapidly developing field and DHTs are providing new opportunities for innovation and growth, and thus are transforming the medical, pharma, biotech and allied fields. In the medical devices sector, innovations in the field of smart materials, wearable devices, and AI/ML-based systems are rapidly being introduced for clinical ...

  13. Health & Medicine News -- ScienceDaily

    US Navy Growler Jet Noise Over Whidbey Island Could Impact 74,000 People's Health. May 10, 2024 — As often as four days a week, Boeing EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft based at Naval ...

  14. Applications of nanotechnology in medical field: a brief review

    For carrying out this study, relevant papers on Nanotechnology in the medical field from Scopus, Google scholar, ResearchGate, and other research platforms are identified and studied. ... Recent developments in the field of nanotechnology for the development of medical implants. Proc Manufactur, 30 (2019), pp. 544-551.

  15. Innovative technological advancements in laboratory medicine

    In addition, recent advancements in the digitization of culture plate images and the ability to electronically read incubated plates have facilitated the introduction of TLA to microbiology and the subsequent revolution of this field [Citation 4, Citation 22, Citation 24, Citation 25].

  16. (PDF) Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: an essay

    Abstract. This essay examines the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based technology applications in healthcare and the impact they have on the industry. This study comprised a detailed review ...

  17. Medical Research News

    The number of cancer cases and deaths in Canada is expected to increase because of a growing and aging population, but the overall rates of people being diagnosed with and dying from cancer will ...

  18. Keeping Up With the Medical Literature: Why, How, and When?

    To remain competitive throughout their career, clinicians and researchers must keep abreast of new publications in their field. This represents a major challenge due to the exponential growth in the number of publications powered by the academic publish-or-perish culture and the ever-growing availability of the internet favoring the emergence of online-only publications. 1-3 For example, a ...

  19. Medical Physics: Latest Advances and Prospects

    Medical Physics covers all areas of applied physics research dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases. Medical Physics encompasses both experimental and theoretical research and strongly involves computing. This Special Issue is dedicated to new developments in the field of Medical Physics, which includes (but is ...

  20. 10 Successful Medical School Essays

    In one of my earliest pieces, I wrote about a local boy's suicide to try to better understand my visceral response. I discussed my frustration with the teenage social hierarchy, reflecting upon ...

  21. The Grand Challenges of Medical Technology

    The Regulatory Environment and Standardization. New challenges include how to assess advances in therapies using health technology assessments which are tailored for new fields such as gene therapy or cell therapies. The expansion of medical technology in our hospitals has not kept pace with patient safety.

  22. What Premed Students Should Know About Emerging Fields of Medical

    Application of a known technology to a new field can also yield exciting advancements. A recent example is cryo-EM-mediated determination of complex structures, such as ligand-bound receptors ...

  23. Medical Field Essay

    Medical Field Essay. Decent Essays. 1353 Words. 6 Pages. Open Document. The Developing Techniques Of The Medical Field Within In The United States. The phrase "going to the doctor" is commonly used among people of all ages and from all backgrounds. It sounds as if a trip to the doctor is similar to a casual visit with a personal friend.

  24. Opinion

    Re "Moral Dilemmas in Medical Care" (Opinion guest essay, May 8): It is unsettling, and dismaying, to read Dr. Carl Elliott's account of moral lapses continuing to exist, if not thrive, in ...

  25. Medical Technology Development: An Introduction to the Innovation

    PUTTING CLINICAL EVALUATION IN CONTEXT. Two major considerations influenced the selection of the theme of this volume. The first is the emergence of widespread concern over the way in which new medical technologies are evaluated clinically during the development process. 1 For example, the development of drugs for life-threatening diseases has become the subject of extensive reporting in the ...

  26. Mainebiz boosts UMaine, USM medical research partnership

    Mainebiz reported on the medical research partnership between the University of Maine and University of Southern Maine to advance the field of medicine and create new professional development opportunities. The pilot partnership is led by the UMaine Institute of Medicine and provides fellowships to USM faculty, who will become adjunct faculty at UMaine and work with researchers at the institute.