Artificial intelligence has had a tremendous impact in medicine, with applications in areas spanning administrative tasks and clinical medicine. The specific value that artificial intelligence brings to medicine brings varies based on several factors including the task at hand and the medical specialty involved. It has, for instance, been … [Read more...]
How is Artificial Intelligence Helping with Emergency Medicine?
New Data on Environmental Factors that May Contribute to ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is most often classified as sporadic. Because there is no known genetic explanation for the majority of cases of ALS, physicians, and other healthcare experts have long investigated the potential environmental influences that may lead to the development of this devastating degenerative disorder. The authors of … [Read more...]
How We Can Help Healthcare Workers Overcome Shift Work Disorder Symptoms
One of the aspects of clinical medicine that many healthcare workers find challenging is shift work, particularly shift work that involves working overnight. Nearly one out of every five nurses who work night shifts develops shift work disorder (SWD) because of the chronic disruption they endure with regard to their sleep-wake cycle. Indeed, when … [Read more...]
Escitalopram – an SSRI – Shows Promise for Treating GAD in Young People
Nearly 4.5 million youths suffer from anxiety - the most common mental illness in the United States. While psychotherapy and pharmaceuticals are often used with success to treat anxiety in children and adolescents, it can be difficult to predict which therapeutic strategies will be effective. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors - or SSRIs - … [Read more...]
Which Children Should Be Tested for COVID-19?
The role that children play in the spread of COVID-19 remains unclear. While it is largely consensus amongst the medical community that children are unlikely to become severely ill after infection with the virus, their infection rates and their likelihood of transmitting the virus to others is still not well understood. As schools slowly reopen, … [Read more...]