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When you’re dealing with a major health condition, you might have to regularly go through intense treatment, like chemotherapy if you have cancer, dialysis for kidney disease, or bladder instillations for chronic pain conditions like interstitial cystitis (IC). You’re sometimes poked and prodded, told to take nauseating meds, or hooked up to a machine for

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the availability of its final guidance on AI medical devices.  The document – Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Device Software Functions – aims to provide a "forward-thinking approach to promote the development of safe and effective AI-enabled devices," the agency

Worried that President-elect Donald Trump will curtail federal efforts to take on the nation’s medical debt problem, patient and consumer advocates are looking to states to help people who can’t afford their medical bills or pay down their debts. “The election simply shifts our focus,” said Eva Stahl, who oversees public policy at Undue Medical

By expediting the first step of spatial omics data analysis, a new artificial intelligence model developed at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia provides detailed insights into how a disease develops and progresses at the cellular level, and it can advance precise diagnostics and targeted treatments. CHOP's open-source AI tool is now available in a public repository

Perspectives > Second Opinions — Artificial intelligence should be used differently in training and medical practice by Naga Kanaparthy, MD, MPH December 1, 2024 Kanaparthy is a practicing internal medicine physician specializing in clinical informatics. President-elect Donald Trump's pick for secretary of education, Linda McMahon, will be wrestling with growing uncertainty around education in the

Carolyn Dickens, 76, was sitting at her dining room table, struggling to catch her breath as her physician looked on with concern. “What’s going on with your breathing?” asked Peter Gliatto, director of Mount Sinai’s Visiting Doctors Program. “I don’t know,” she answered, so softly it was hard to hear. “Going from here to the

Older breast cancer survivors often have other medical issues and a shorter life expectancy than younger breast cancer survivors. What's more, their cancers are often slow-growing, and surveillance may lead to over-treatment of cancers that won't kill them, researchers say. Despite these downsides, older breast cancer survivors are still undergoing mammograms even though their risk

Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff April 29, 2023 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up