Tag - Healthcare

Progress on HIV Vaccine?

HIV is a very complicated virus, and we haven't succeeded in making a vaccine for it yet.Image credit:CanvasSince HIV first appeared, many things have changed. New medicines help people with HIV live well and stop them from spreading the virus. But to truly beat HIV, we need a vaccine.HIV is a big problem worldwide,...

Can the Metaverse and Virtual Reality Contribute to Better Healthcare?

Pari Natarajan, CEO of Zinnov, a global management and consulting firm focusing on digital transformation in healthcare. Credit: Pari NatarajanAn expert offers an overview of AR and VR for provider organizations and discusses what these advanced technologies might help hospitals' health systems accomplish.The metaverse and virtual reality are promising technologies that might benefit healthcare.Medical...

We All Lose Our Memory Sometimes

(Dougal Waters/Getty ImagesYou've driven home from work along the same course for the past five years. However, lately, you've been stopping at the same intersection, struggling to remember if you must turn left or right. Many occasions in everyday life could make us question whether lapses in memory are common, a sign of cognitive...

The Negative Aspect of Machine Learning in Healthcare

Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi analyzes how disguised biases in medical data can jeopardize artificial intelligence approaches.While completing her dissertation in computer science at MIT, Marzyeh Ghassemi wrote numerous papers on how machine learning strategies from artificial intelligence could be applied to medical data to anticipate patient outcomes. "It was not till the end of...