The 1-year results from the PRECISE Trial were presented at the American Heart Association (AHA) annual congress in Chicago on November 6th. This global, prospective, randomised trial examined a Precision Pathway versus a Traditional Testing pathway for patients with stable chest pain.

A new study in Scientific Reports suggests that children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder have distinct connectivity patterns in the white matter pathways of their brain. This discovery was made after researchers used diffusion weighted MRI scans to compare brain connectivity patterns between individuals with ASD and those with developmental coordination disorder.

An imaging industry supplier best known for a widely adopted radiology reporting platform is partnering on radiological artificial intelligence with a company that pioneered GPUs and accelerated computing.Together the companies are aiming to put AI-based diagnostic tools “directly into the hands of radiologists and other clinicians at scale, enabling the delivery of improved patient care...

PET/CT with the common radiotracer 18F-FDG has been found useful for workups and monitoring of infections in real-world hospitalised patients, according to a study conducted by researchers at Yale and Stanford.

Health system AdventHealth has teamed up with Monogram Health to improve the health outcomes of kidney care patients. The partnership brings together Monogram’s specialised MSO kidney care teams with AdventHealth providers with the intent to slow the progression of chronic kidney and end-stage renal disease.

Google Cloud has launched three new healthcare accelerators, partnering up with health systems, to address common use cases around health equity, patient flow and value-based care.

A novel chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy targeting CD70 showed encouraging activity in a small group of patients with advanced clear cell renal cell carcinoma, with one patient achieving a complete response lasting more than 2 years.

Cancer death rates have dropped again among men, women, children and adolescents and young adults across demographics. The latest data comes from the ‘Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer’, which recently determined cancer death rates have declined from 2015 to 2019.

Children between the ages of 12 and 15 face very low risk of developing myocarditis after being vaccinated for COVID-19, according to new research published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In addition, all cases of myocarditis identified by the study’s authors were mild.

Mepitel film, a transparent, breathable, adhesive soft silicone film dressing, is more effective than standard of care in preventing acute radiation dermatitis in at-risk breast cancer patients, a phase III randomised trial showed.