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Can AI Predict Preterm Birth in Diabetic, Hypertensive Pregnancies?
1+ hour, 42+ min ago (173+ words) A Naive Bayes'based explainable machine-learning model predicted preterm birth in pregnant women with both gestational diabetes mellitus and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, suggesting a potential tool for individualized obstetric risk management, according to a retrospective dual-center study published by Kang…...
Is Teleultrasound Ready for Obstetric Care?
6+ hour, 18+ min ago (165+ words) We do not use cookies of this type. Teleultrasound allows ultrasound images to be transmitted to a remote specialist for interpretation. It has been proposed as a strategy to improve access to obstetric imaging in rural or underserved areas. Diagnostic…...
Sleep Disruption and Osteoarthritis Risk
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (164+ words) Investigators find that short sleep, insomnia, and night shift work are associated with increased risk of knee and hip osteoarthritis and joint replacement. Sleeping less than 6 hours per night may be associated with more than a 40% higher knee osteoarthritis risk,…...
Experts Prioritize 3 Drugs for Alzheimer's
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (737+ words) A global expert consensus identifies three repurposed drugs, including the shingles vaccine, as top candidates for Alzheimer disease clinical trials A Delphi consensus of 23 international experts has identified three existing drugs as high-priority candidates for Alzheimer disease clinical trials, with…...
COVID Vaccine in Pregnancy: Link to Development?
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (157+ words) We do not use cookies of this type. Multicenter study finds equivalent ASQ-3 scores at 1830 months in offspring of vaccinated and unvaccinated mothers The primary outcome, assessed using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire version 3, showed total scores of 255 in the…...
Retinal AI Predicts Neonatal Lung Disease
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (162+ words) We do not use cookies of this type. Retinal scans already performed in the NICU could flag infants at risk for serious lung disease before standard diagnosis Deep learning models trained on retinal images obtained during routine screening for retinopathy…...
One in Ten Develop Seroma
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (275+ words) We do not use cookies of this type. Seroma developed in 11% of patients following parotidectomy in a retrospective study of 527 cases published in Frontiers in Surgery. Researchers reviewed adult patients treated at a tertiary center between March 2020 and March 2025. Seroma…...
Corneal Imaging and an ‘Overlooked Source’
1+ week, 6+ hour ago (58+ words) We do not use cookies of this type. Light-colored irises were associated with a 6.6% relative increase in corneal densitometry compared with dark-colored irises, according to a recent study. The authors reported no conflicts of interest. Source: Journal of Optometry Stay…...
Shoulder MRI: Rethinking Findings
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (121+ words) We do not use cookies of this type. Routine imaging may detect age-related tendon changes that do not explain patient-reported shoulder pain. Nearly all adult participants aged 41 to 76 years had at least one rotator cuff abnormality on magnetic resonance imaging,…...
Positive Urine Cytology Reveals Melanoma
1+ week, 1+ day ago (207+ words) We do not use cookies of this type. Rare case links prior melanoma in situ'to ureter and porta'hepatis metastases A case report published in Cureus describes metastatic melanoma identified four years after complete excision of a lesion originally diagnosed as…...