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Neurologists at a memory clinic in China diagnosed a 19-year-old with what they believe to be Alzheimer's disease, making him the youngest person to be diagnosed with the condition in the world.The male teenager began experiencing memory decline around age 17, and the cognitive losses only worsened over the years.Imaging of the patient's brain showed shrinkage in the hippocampus, which is involved in memory, and his cerebrospinal fluid hinted at common markers of this most common form of dementia.Alzheimer's disease (AD)…

Glut1 deficiency syndrome, a neurological disease caused by a genetic mutation leading to insufficient glucose for the brain, can cause seizures, abnormal movement, and developmental delays. Scientists have developed a blood test called METAglut1, which can diagnose the disease quickly, bypassing the need for an invasive lumbar puncture, with a sensitivity of about 80% and specificity of more than 99%.Glut1 deficiency syndrome is a relatively obscure neurological condition that remains unknown to the medical community,…

Supermarket carts embedded with electrocardiogram (ECG) sensors were utilized in a research study, SHOPS-AF, to detect atrial fibrillation in shoppers, potentially helping to prevent debilitating or fatal strokes.The SHOPS-AF study used supermarket carts fitted with ECG sensors to detect atrial fibrillation among shoppers in a novel public health initiative. While the method demonstrated a significant number of false positives and negatives, it identified 39 previously undiagnosed cases, prompting refinements for…

Healthcare providers often face the daunting task of sifting through vast amounts of information from various sources to come to a conclusion about whether a patient is likely to suffer from a specific disease in the future or even whether he already has contracted it. This can pose a challenge while making urgent decisions or identifying patients at risk, leading to time wastage, delayed diagnoses, and potentially negative outcomes.To address this challenge, the DataRobot AI Platform aims to integrate all types of data…

Ingestible video capsule endoscopes have been around for a while, but they’re severely limited and not controllable by physicians, relying entirely on gravity and the digestive system for movement. Researchers may have just gotten around that limitation by developing a pill-shaped capsule that allows for remote control, as announced by the GW School of Medicine & Health Sciences. This tech lets physicians quite literally drive a miniature video capsule, called the NaviCam, throughout the digestive system to visualize…

The UK researchers have developed a novel algorithm based on artificial intelligence (AI) that may one day help doctors diagnose heart attacks quickly and with precision.According to researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the new algorithm, called CoDE-ACS, was able to rule out a heart attack in more than double the number of patients, with an accuracy of 99.6 per cent in comparison to current testing methods.CoDE-ACS may also greatly help in reducing hospital admissions and rapidly identify patients that are safe…

The UK researchers have developed a novel algorithm based on artificial intelligence (AI) that may one day help doctors diagnose heart attacks quickly and with precision.According to researchers from the University of Edinburgh, the new algorithm, called CoDE-ACS, was able to rule out a heart attack in more than double the number of patients, with an accuracy of 99.6 per cent in comparison to current testing methods.CoDE-ACS may also greatly help in reducing hospital admissions and rapidly identify patients that are safe…

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is growing more rapidly than any other neurological disease, which makes its early detection so important. Researchers have developed a new machine-learning tool that shows promise as a way of detecting the disease early.A diagnosis of PD usually occurs when a person presents with the traditional symptoms: slowed movements, tremors, poor balance and coordination, and muscular rigidity.But the onset of atypical symptoms such as fatigue, trouble sleeping, bladder or bowel problems, depression and/or…

Benjamin Tolchin, a neurologist and ethicist at Yale University, is used to seeing patients who searched for their symptoms on the Internet before coming to see him—a practice doctors have long tried to discourage. “Dr. Google” is notoriously lacking in context and prone to pulling up unreliable sources. But in recent months Tolchin has begun seeing patients who are using a new, far more powerful tool for self-diagnosis: artificial intelligence chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the latest version of Microsoft’s search…

Schematic illustration of ‘Development of on-site applicable strip-type sensor for cancer diagnosis through the amplification of urine metabolites’ developed by Dr. Ho Sang Jung’s research team at Korea Institute of Materials Science. Credit: Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS)A research team has succeeded in developing a strip-type urine sensor that can amplify the light signal of metabolites in urine and in diagnosing cancer in the field. This result came from an effort to find metabolites in urine that was led…