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SPOTLIGHT: New Study Uncovering Factors That Drive Depression After Stroke
The Cognitive Recovery Lab at the Georgetown University Medical Center presented their new findings — at the Meeting of the ...
How is Bruce Willis’ health? What to know about his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis
Since 2022, Bruce Willis has been grappling with his health, including an aphasia diagnosis and frontotemporal dementia.
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Effects of low-frequency rTMS combined with speech and language therapy on Broca’s aphasia in subacute stroke patients
Introduction: Broca’s aphasia is a crushing syndrome after stroke. Although there are multiple therapies, the recovery of a considerable number of patients is still not ideal. Repetitive transcranial ...
Doctors Are Using AI to Transcribe Conversations With Patients. But Researchers Say the Tool Is Hallucinating 'Entire' Sentences.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI introduced Whisper two years ago as an AI tool that transcribes speech to text. Now, the tool is used by ...
CIO17d
Patients may suffer from hallucinations of AI medical transcription tools
One transcription product that relies on an AI model deletes the original audio, leaving doctors no way to check the ...
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Dissociation of White Matter Bundles in Different Recovery Measures in Poststroke Aphasia
École d’orthophonie et d’audiologie (A.O.G., A.B., K.M), Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. Centre de recherche du Centre intégré universitaire de ...
CBC.ca19d
Alberta doctor sounds alarm after 7 patients contract infection from organ transplants
(Radio-Canada) A disease that is more commonly associated with the trenches of the First World War, and can sometimes be found in refugee camps, has been detected in several patients in Alberta ...
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Surgeon removes large brain tumours through patients' eyebrows in 'world first'
A surgeon is removing brain tumours "the size of large apples" through patients' eyebrows, in what is believed to be a world first. Consultant neurosurgeon Anastasios Giamouriadis, based in ...
Al Jazeera English19d
Patients, staff trapped in Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital amid Israeli siege
At least 600 patients along with their companions, and staff members, are trapped at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya as the Israeli military besieges the medical facility, the Palestinian ...
The Conversation19d
Doctors are preoccupied with threats of criminal charges in states with abortion bans, putting patients’ lives at risk
Jackson Women’s Health Supreme Court decision are forced to balance the needs of their pregnant patients against the risk that the providers could be prosecuted for treating these patients.
STAT20d
In the era of GLP-1 drugs, demand for bariatric surgery plunges
As a practicing bariatric surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, he had noticed an uptick in last-minute cancellations, especially among patients who had recently started taking GLP ...
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What doctors wish patients knew about managing eczema
The AMA’s What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ series gives physicians a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. In this installment, Edward Esparza, ...