AI and Medical Insights

Explore how AI is reshaping mental health care with chatbots, smart apps, and 24/7 emotional support for better well-being. It was midnight and Sophia was worried. Looking at the ceiling, she was perfectly alone. However instead of panicking, Sophia used one of the mental health apps on her phone, an AI chatbot. It responded to her calmly and like a friendly and concerned human being, and this is how it relieved her of the stressful thoughts. This is not science fiction. Due to the advances in artificial intelligence, individuals such as Sophia can now have personal emotional support at any time of the day or night. Over 85% of people with mental health needs worldwide don’t receive treatment, often because there simply aren’t enough therapists. That gap can leave millions feeling helpless. AI is stepping in to bridge this divide. According to experts, AI-driven tools will be able to scale mental health care to reach those who would otherwise go without psychology today. Consider, as a...

AI-powered robotic surgery is transforming healthcare with precision, faster recovery, smarter planning, real-time guidance, and safer outcomes. AI in robotic surgery A surgeon is sitting in a silent operating room hunching over the console, yet the scalpel is not in their hands. They are actually operating complex robotic hands miles distant, and are interpreting the minutest movement of their wrist into a fine, constant movement which is beyond human perception. It is not a scene of a futuristic film, but the silent, deep revolution of the world of hospitals. The surgeon remains the master artist, however, their instruments now have been energised with intelligence, foresight and a degree of precision never believed possible. Artificial intelligence that is integrated in robotic surgery is very quickly changing the face of medicine. Central to AI is the capacity of a computer or computer-controlled object to carry out human processes that demand complex attributes such as the capacit...

Canadian researchers use AI to analyze speech patterns and detect suicide risk early, offering new hope through life-saving voice analysis. Suppose a crisis call in the middle of the night. The other voice is a whisper, almost shaking with the pain. Their words may not tell it, but each shiver and silence tells a lot about some battle. Canadian scientists are now instructing computers to hear out those hints so as to transform speech into sources of hope. Using machine learning to detect the cry of a person in need, by noticing tone or rhythm and the choice of words, these innovators hope to notice the cry before it can reach a human counselor, and in some cases, before the human counselor can hear the person. In Montreal and elsewhere, organizations are teaching AI to notice the warning signs in our voices, of a close friend between the lines. A research carried out in Concordia University by a PhD student, Alaa Nfissi reveals how it works. The computer does not read but listens to al...

Explore how nanorobots move inside the human body to deliver drugs directly to affected organs, advancing precision medicine and targeted treatment. Suppose you had a small submarine going along in your veins, and it turned itself into just where the medicine was required in your body. It is similar to science fiction but scientists are currently developing nanorobots - microscopic machines as small as a human cell which can be easily transported into the body and target particular organs or tumors and deliver drugs directly to them. Rather than injecting a drug into your entire body (like a spray of bullets), such miniature robots would remove the diseased part of the body like a sharpshooter hitting a bullseye, which would save healthy tissues a lot of side effects. The technology is set to make our bodies become an internal highway of healing, as medicine will only be delivered where it is necessary. In Caltech (California Institute of Technology), engineers have recently developed ...

Discover how AI-driven tools and wearables forecast asthma attacks in children, giving parents early warnings and proactive care. You have the thought of knowing what is going on with the lungs of your child hours before the storm of coughs and wheezes hits. To millions of parents, asthma attacks in children are their own weather breakers, as clear one minute, the next minute your child is choking at the next.  The new AI-based tools are shaping this. Crunched health data, sensor readings, even a weather report can predict an asthma flare-up in a child, and with these smart systems, a family will have invaluable time of warning. In the US (approximately 5.5 million children) and the rest of the world, Asthma prevalence is 25 million and 339 million, respectively. In children, it is one of the primary reasons showing up late to school and the hospital. Timely warnings are called on desperate grounds since the severe attacks may be fatal. With the development of artificial intelligen...

AI in emergency care is helping doctors predict cardiac arrest early, allowing faster intervention and saving lives in US, UK, and Canadian hospitals. Imagine a nurse in the ER late at night, she is rushing around, the monitors are beeping, and a patient is in an unconscious state. It is situations such as these where time is of essence that are pushing hospitals to innovative positions. Not openly utilized, AI is silently studying the data in the hospital computers, such as ECG readings or medical records, to identify who will have a heart attack before it occurs. Indeed, scientists note that an advanced AI prototype is far superior to physicians in diagnosing patients who have a high risk of cardiac arrest. Practically, this implies that algorithms are picking up on very faint warning signals which even seasoned clinicians would not have otherwise noticed and this could save lives as it could send out warnings to teams hours before the disaster has struck. Sudden cardiac arrest attac...