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Amyloid PET scans improve outcomes in AD patients

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Alzheimer’s disease patients with cognitive impairment or dementia who were referred for amyloid PET scans had fewer hospitalizations compared with a matched control group, according to a study published October 9 in JAMA Neurology. The percentage of patients impacted was small – just 4.5%

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Radiology among least affected services during Ukraine war

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Imaging and radiology centers are among the least affected hospital services in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022, a study published May 17 in JAMA Health Forum found. The survey study included 74 Ukrainian hospitals from 12 oblasts (regions or provinces).

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Paper Calls for Patient-first Regulation of AI in Healthcare

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head of the Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine , co-director of the university’s Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute , and study senior author. “AI “The goal of medicine is to save lives,” said Davey Smith , M.D., Ayers , Ph.D.,

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Columbia University Irving Medical Center Announces New Center for Innovation in Imaging Biomarkers and Integrated Diagnostics

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CIMBID is a multidisciplinary center that will form collaborations across Columbia, including researchers from biomedical informatics, biomedical engineering, systems biology, the Mailman School of Public Health , and the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center. “I

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Connecting Remotely to Cure & Care….

Manipal Hospitals Radiology Group

According to the World Health Organization, the African continent has about 930 registered hospitals (as of November 2015), compared with 650 registered hospitals in India alone. Even in these countries, universal access to decent health care is still unrealized.

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Managing the Patient with Alcohol Intoxication

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The situation is more dangerous given the high incidence of chronic disease, critical illness, and acute trauma. It is reasonable to wait to consult psychiatry until clinical sobriety is achieved. If there is a strong clinical suspicion of alcohol use, but a patient denies drinking, it is reasonable to send an alcohol level.

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Podcast: The medical art of making a diagnosis vs. certainty

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For example, "In the modern world, we have a tendency of medicalizing, to take things that previous generations would have considered normal and make them into a disease process," Rodman explained. And how diseases change over time? Psychiatric diseases are fascinating because. Thomas’ Hospitals.

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