AI Not Ready to Replace Radiologists Interpreting Chest X-Rays
Commercially available artificial intelligence (AI) tools were accurate to varying degrees in flagging chest x-ray abnormalities but turned up more false-positives than radiology reports, a Danish study found. Testing four CE-marked AI tools on real-world radiographs from the Copenhagen region, investigators reported areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves ranging from 0.83-0.88 for airspace disease, […]
Opinion | ‘They Do Not Have the Right Tools to Do This Job’: What We Heard This Week
“They are fully aware they do not have the right tools to do this job.” — Sebastian Palmqvist, MD, PhD, of Lund University in Sweden, discussing why primary care physicians need blood tests to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease more effectively. “There was just such resistance.” — Steven Green, PhD, of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, […]
Air Force Mom Faces Advanced Breast Cancer
Defending their country using the most innovative tools and methods available is what the warriors in Melinda’s family have always done. In the 1980s, Melinda was working as an Air Force procurement officer in North Dakota when she met her husband who, like her father, flew B-52 bombers. Spending three years in Germany and relocating […]
Discovery offers starting point for better gene-editing tools
CRISPR has ushered in the era of genomic medicine. A line of powerful tools has been developed from the popular CRISPR-Cas9 to cure genetic diseases. However, there is a last-mile problem — these tools need to be effectively delivered into every cell of the patient, and most Cas9s are too big to be fitted into […]
Regulating the regulators of the immune system
Checkpoint inhibitors have become important tools in the cancer-fighting arsenal. By blocking proteins that normally restrain the immune response, these drugs can help the immune system destroy cancer cells. But they don’t work in all patients. And now a new study in Nature Immunology led by researchers from Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine suggests a […]
What Is a Suicidal Ideation Scale? Suicide Screening
Suicidal ideation scales are clinical tools used to assess a person’s risk of committing suicide and therefore help in timely intervention and treatment A suicidal ideation scale is a clinical tool used to assess a person’s risk of committing suicide. By helping healthcare providers recognize signs that someone is likely to self-injure, the scale aids […]