How Digital Twins Could Change Clinical Drug Trials
What is a digital twin, and how can it speed up drug trials? While researching health trends expected to boom in the next few years, I was particularly fascinated by the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital health technologies. These are changing the landscape of medicine, offering new ways to personalize patient care and […]
Pharma news in March 2024
After the usual wind-down in news around the end-of-year break, things started to get back up to speed in February, with newsworthy breakthroughs in medical technology and pharmaceuticals. The following is a short overview of what made pharma news in March 2024 that we thought would be most interesting for general readers. 1. Developing vaccines […]
From Sci-Fi to Reality: How AI is Revolutionizing Healthcare
Artificial Intelligence, often called AI, is the science of creating and using computers to think and act like humans. Machines empowered by AI can learn, reason, solve problems, and even understand human language independently! Hundreds of advances on the horizon will make healthcare with AI a basic component of medicine. How does AI Work? At […]
On the healthcare highway, AI is an engine, not a driver
Recently, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to adopt a proposal that would “more clearly define and control the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT) in general medical practice.” The need for this is driven by the explosion of public and professional exposure to ChatGPT. It had more than […]
Probiotics: What You Need to Know
An announcement on the National Institutes of Health website on January 17th revealed some interesting results coming out of a study on the benefits of probiotics, which are digestive supplements containing live microorganisms, as a way to complement or replace antibiotics. In the study, the probiotic Bacillus was found to be especially promising because it […]
Could Metformin Be One of the Anti-aging Drugs That Extends Life Expectancy?
It may sound too good to be true if you heard a claim that anti-aging drugs are about to come onto the shelves at your local pharmacy. However, there is a lot of advanced research going on to discover whether and how the life expectancy of you and me can be improved. Right now, the […]
Hospital wards in crisis due to infections
What is now being reported as a “tripledemic of Covid, RSV and flu” is pushing U.S. hospitals into a crisis mode. A few months back, we reported on the observations coming from Southern Hemisphere countries like Australia and New Zealand that “Flu is coming early this year”, and even earlier that “there could be a […]
How Israeli tech is helping families conceive
On 25 July 1978, the world’s first “test-tube” baby, named Louise Brown, was born at the UK’s Oldham General hospital. Her parents had been trying to conceive naturally for nine years, but faced complications from the mother’s blocked fallopian tubes. There had been intense opposition to the whole concept of in vitro fertilization (IVF) with […]
A few exciting new medical innovations so far in 2022
The rate of progress in patient diagnosis and treatment has accelerated again this year, after a short hiatus brought on by the need to concentrate on finding and deploying a barrier to the COVID-19 pandemic. In both academic institutions and the private pharmaceutical sector, there are, once again, many exciting developments that can address worldwide […]
