A University of Florida researcher has developed a groundbreaking open-source computer program that uses artificial intelligence to analyze videos of patients with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders. The tool, called VisionMD, helps doctors more accurately monitor subtle motor changes, improving patient care and advancing clinical research. Diego Guarin, Ph.D.,Continue Reading
New research from The University of Texas at Arlington and the U.S. Department of Agriculture demonstrates how mathematical modeling can predict outbreaks of toxic fungi in Texas corn crops — offering a potential lifeline to farmers facing billions in harvest losses. “Our research focuses on predicting aflatoxin outbreaks in TexasContinue Reading
Medical professionals have been using artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline diagnoses for decades, using what are called diagnostic decision support systems (DDSSs). Computer scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system first developed MGH’s own DDSS called DXplain in 1984, which reliesContinue Reading
Artur Plawgo uniQure (NASDAQ:QURE) shares traded higher premarket Tuesday after the Dutch biotech posted the latest data from its Phase 1/2 clinical trials for AMT-130, an investigational gene therapy for Huntington’s disease, a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disorder. Based on a Mar. 31 data cut of 21 patients, the company saidContinue Reading
Sundry Photography Merck (NYSE:MRK) announced Friday that an expert panel of the EU drug regulator, the European Medicines Agency (EMA), endorsed its lung disease therapy Winrevair in combination with other medications for certain adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) issued aContinue Reading
