Chronic Disease Management

Brain Sensor Could Accelerate Alzheimer’s Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

A newly-developed sensor can evaluate transmissions in the brain at both the microscopic and the nanoscopic level, accelerating Alzheimer’s precision medicine, according to a study published in...

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors High in Minority Populations

by Jessica Kent

While most Hispanic and Latino people in the US were aware of their cardiovascular disease risk factors, less than half of stroke survivors in these populations had healthy blood pressure and...

Clinical Trial Will Evaluate Gene Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease

by Jessica Kent

A team from UC San Diego School of Medicine will conduct a clinical trial to assess the value of a gene therapy to deliver a protein into the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. The...

Machine Learning Uncovers Link Between Diet, Chronic Disease Risk

by Jessica Kent

A machine learning algorithm may be able to inform clinicians how food intake influences chronic disease risk. A team from the Harvard T.H. School of Public Health, together with researchers from...

Discovery of New Alzheimer’s Subtypes May Speed Precision Medicine

by Jessica Kent

Using data from RNA sequencing, a team from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has detected three molecular subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease that could advance precision medicine...

Researchers Discover Genetic Markers Associated with Bone Growth

by Jessica Kent

Genetic markers related to mineral bone accrual could help providers identify younger patients at risk of fractures in later life, according to a study published in Genome Biology. Osteoporosis is a...

VA Broadens Clinical Data Access to Improve Patient Outcomes

by Jessica Kent

The Veterans Health Administration Innovation Ecosystem (VHA IE), a division of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), is partnering with MDClone to enhance patient outcomes by increasing clinical...

Real-Time Data Analytics Critical for Improving Heart Health

by Jessica Kent

Real-time data analytics and partnerships between researchers and healthcare providers will help boost heart health, according to a report published in Circulation by the American Heart Association...

Machine Learning Predicts Which Breast Cancer Patients Need Surgery

by Jessica Kent

A machine learning algorithm can analyze medical images and predict which breast cancer patients need surgery, revealed a study published in the American Journal of Physiology – Cell...

Big Data Analytics May Lead to More Precise Cancer Treatments

by Jessica Kent

As big data analytics technologies continue to move from research labs to clinical settings, organizations are increasingly leveraging these tools to design more comprehensive cancer...

Artificial Intelligence May Offer Insight into Parkinson’s Disease

by Jessica Kent

A team from Purdue University is leveraging artificial intelligence technology to collect and automatically measure the speech skills of people with Parkinson’s disease. According to the...

Population Health Initiative to Improve Chronic Disease Management

by Jessica Kent

The Johns Hopkins Health System and the University of Maryland Medical Center have received an award of $43 million over five years to improve population health and chronic disease management for...

Precision Medicine Approach Reverses Case of Type 1 Diabetes

by Jessica Kent

A precision medicine treatment that involves correcting an underlying genetic mutation led to the reversal of a case of type 1 diabetes, according to a study published in the New England Journal of...

Natural Language Processing Accurately Detects HPV-Related Cancers

by Jessica Kent

Natural language processing tools can analyze pathology reports and identify individuals with HPV-related cancers, improving disease surveillance and treatment, according to a study published in JMIR...

Using AI, Data Analytics to Enhance Person-Centered Care for Seniors

by Jessica Kent

Right now, there are more than 46 million adults age 65 and older living in the US. By 2050, that number is expected to grow to almost 90 million.  This means that in just ten years, one in five Americans is projected to be 65 or...

Study Uses Artificial Intelligence for Alzheimer’s Drug Development

by Jessica Kent

A team at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania will leverage artificial intelligence to find patterns in genetic, imaging, and clinical data from over 60,000...

UCSF Aims to Apply Precision Medicine Techniques to Diabetes

by Jessica Kent

UC San Francisco (UCSF) is using a $1 million grant to build a first-of-its-kind diagnostic center that will aim to use precision medicine methods to find targeted therapies for type 1 diabetes. The...

Big Data Dashboard Could Optimize Cancer Clinical Decision Support

by Jessica Kent

Researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, in partnership with Roche Diagnostics, have developed a big data dashboard to optimize the process of gathering relevant information for...

Machine Learning Helps Classify Breast Cancer Cell Types

by Jessica Kent

A new biochip uses machine learning to differentiate between cancers and healthy tissues at the single-cell level, according to a study published in Advanced Biosystems. Because of the heterogeneous...

NIH Funds Study to Advance Precision Medicine for Diabetes

by Jessica Kent

NIH is funding a nationwide study involving 20 research centers to better understand unusual types of diabetes, which could accelerate precision medicine for the condition. The Rare and Atypical...