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Tomorrow’s Cure: AI Powered Stethoscopes Improve Access to Heart Care

The stethoscope, one of the most iconic symbols of medicine, was invented over 200 years ago. Today, artificial intelligence is revolutionizing this essential tool, empowering doctors to detect cardiac disease at its earliest stages with greater precision. Discover these groundbreaking advancements on a new episode of Tomorrow’s Cure. The podcast episode features Dr. Demilade Adedinsewo, […]

Technology

To Improve Your Gut Microbiome, Spend More Time in Nature

Microbes in our gut can have a profound impact on our health, but research is showing that those surrounding us in our environment—what’s known as the natural environmental microbiome—can have a big impact too. This suggests that we should all spend a lot more time interacting with nature, both outdoors and indoors. I was first […]

Science

Recycling sewage is a sensible way to improve water security, but would you swallow it?

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Our water supply is far from infinite. According to the UNnearly 1.8 billion people are projected to live in areas with absolute water scarcity by 2025, and two-thirds of the world’s population could be living under water-stressed conditions. If water becomes scarce or unavailable for an extended period, would you drink […]

Mayo Clinic researchers develop new AI tools to reveal seizure hotspots, improve patient care

Getty Images Mayo Clinic researchers have developed new artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools to pinpoint specific regions of the brain with seizure hotspots more quickly and accurately in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. Their study, published in Nature Communications Medicine, highlights the potential of AI to revolutionize epilepsy treatment by interpreting brain waves during electrode implantation surgery. […]

Innovative Mayo Clinic test may improve mesothelioma detection rate in blood

A 3D illustration depicts mesothelioma cancer. Mayo Clinic researchers have developed an innovative testing strategy for mesothelioma that could potentially increase the detection rate of cancer DNA in the blood. This approach focuses on shuffled or swapped sections of DNA in mesothelioma cancer cells, called chromosomal rearrangements. By detecting these complex DNA patterns, rather than […]