Source: Scientists have developed a blood test that can predict whether someone is at high risk of a heart attack, stroke, heart failure or dying from one of these conditions within the next four years. The test, which relies of measurements of proteins in the blood, has roughly twice the accuracy of existing risk scores.

Source: Life events that influence levels of the female hormone Estrogen may be linked to a woman’s risk of developing dementia in later life, according to new research. The analysis found that some reproductive events – like an early or late start to menstruation, early menopause and hysterectomy – were linked to higher risk of...

Source: AI researchers have started to show that there are ways to efficiently adapt AI training methods to changing environments or tasks, resulting in more robust agents. While AI still has a long way to go before anything like human-level intelligence is achieved, it hasn’t stopped the likes of Google, Facebook (Meta) and Amazon investing billions of dollars...

Source: Advances in technologies to detect early signs of disease from a blood sample are helping doctors to identify the memory-robbing disorder more accurately and to screen participants more quickly for trials of potential treatments.

Source: A new observational study has found an association between the consumption of artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame and acesulfame-K, to cancer. The worldwide artificial sweetener market is estimated at $22.2 billion and rising, a nearly three-billion-dollar increase in the last 2 years alone.

Source: Metastatic prostate cancer cases surged following the issuance of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations against routine screening for the disease, according to research published Monday. It was back in 2008 that the influential panel of experts urged against regular prostate-specific antigen testing among men older than 75, which spread to all ages by...

Source: Adoption of Artificial intelligence appears to be lagging in radiology and the rest of healthcare. Experts with the influential Brookings Institution have a few theories why. The Washington-based research outfit pointed to U.S. job advertisements as potential proof of this slow rate of uptake. Typically, as technology evolves, labor demand adjusts to include the...

Source: The Tomosynthesis Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial (TMIST) has recently reached 65,000 participants. Which surpasses the halfway mark toward its current goal of 128,905. Organisers said on Friday that enrolment had doubled over the last year and a half, with Black women accounting for more than 20% of enrolment.

Source: Researchers at the National Robotarium are developing an artificial intelligence (AI) companion which will aid memory recollection, boost confidence and combat depression in people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.  

Source: Ultrasound is the most widely used cardiac imaging modality, we have been able to observe several advances in recent years that are making echocardiography more accessible, accurate and efficient. Advances in computer processing have also made a quantum jump in the past decade, allowing more of the data collected by ultrasound to be processed and presented in a...