AI and Medical Insights

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...

AI-powered smart stents predict risks, improve recovery, and reshape heart care across North America. Imagine you’re a city planner. Many years you have had to put up with a leaking, decaying pipe right down on the streets. You can only be better fixed by getting a crew on shore to strengthen it with a new, strong liner--a lasting cure. You hope it holds. You pray it holds. However, there is no alternative way of knowing whether the pressure is building up once again, whether small cracks are emerging, or whether the fix is really effective as intended. You live blindly until the next big break. This has been the case of cardiovascular care over decades. Imagery in the form of a coronary stent, which is that very small, mesh tube that goes in a constricted artery, is a miracle of life. However when it is implanted it becomes a passive metal. Patients and doctors are left to hope it is doing its job, and only to find a problem such as re-narrowing (restenosis), or a clot in a follow-up ...

AI-powered, FDA-approved ECG tools help detect atrial fibrillation early. Learn how smartwatches and ECG monitors safeguard your heart health. Think of a situation when you are in the office or jogging in the morning and your smartwatch notifies you: Irregular heart rhythm detected. Such notification can be a savior. Atrial fibrillation (AFib): one of the heart arrhythmias is frequently a silent disease, showing no apparent symptoms. It might hit apparently healthy individuals and mute stroke threat by 5 folds. Fortunately, the current AI-powered ECG devices are like heart smoke detectors that can sense threatening heart beats in their early stages. In this post, we shall take you through the innovative, FDA-approved devices, i.e., smartwatches and digital stethoscopes, that are powered by artificial intelligence to identify AFib. You will listen to real-life examples and professional observations, and then you will start to feel as knowledgeable and assured as when you will be talking...