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Covid-19 is a game-changer for healthcare – in even more ways than you might think: clinical management, approaches to leadership, research design and many more aspects have seen drastic changes during the pandemic.
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'Chaimeleon' project
Removing data bias in cancer images through AI
A new EU-wide repository for health-related imaging data could boost development and marketing of AI tools for better cancer management. The open-source database will collect and harmonise images acquired from 40,000 patients, spanning different...
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Covid-19's impact on studiesClinical trials during the pandemic: lessons for future cancer researchThe continuing corona virus epidemic has impacted strongly on cancer care and research, including the delay of treatments and diagnoses as well as on trials of new therapies, and the shift in research to develop a Covid-19 vaccine. However, the |
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Covid-19, cybersecurity, AITop 10 technology hazards for hospitals (according to experts)Coronavirus-associated concerns dominate the Top 10 list of important technology hazard risks for hospitals, in an annual report published by ECRI, a nonprofit technology Pennsylvania research firm. The list is derived from ECRI’s team of |
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Pandemic managementHow the Covid-19 crisis defines good leadershipA senior UK health figure has highlighted how contrasting leadership approaches are impacting the response to the global coronavirus crisis. Dr Clare Gerada also fears that response is affecting health professionals and leaders within the sector, |
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Fewer heart surgeries, more patient deathsLandmark study examines 'Covid effect' on cardiac surgeryThe most deadly global health crisis in a century has resulted in a substantial decline in overall heart surgery volume and an unexplained increase in deaths after coronary artery bypass grafting, according to late-breaking research presented at the |
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Early detectionBlood-based methylation test offers promising data on lung cancer detectionIn-vitro diagnostics company Universal Diagnostics (UDX) announced promising new data for its investigational blood-based lung cancer test. The data, presented at the IASLC 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer hosted by the International Association |
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WHO online coursesCorona, Ebola & Co: conveying life-saving knowledge in real-timeThe corona pandemic, which has been rampant for a year, and the Ebola epidemic of 2017 have shown the value of online courses for the rapid worldwide dissemination of life-saving knowledge, the German Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) points out. One |
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New regeneration methodHealing skeletal injuries with synthetic boneResearchers at Lund University in Sweden, in collaboration with colleagues in Dresden, Germany, have developed a way of combining a bone substitute and drugs to regenerate bone and heal severe fractures in the thigh or shin bone. The study, |
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