Here Are The "Top 5" Healthcare Articles On Our Reading List This Week
A new study has found that Generative AI technologies like ChatGPT could perform even better than physicians in answering patient's healthcare questions;
Welcome to another edition of “Top 5” On Care City Weekly.
In this edition, we take a look at how AI is used in augmenting the work of physicians, the obesity drug-producing industry and how it’s getting more popular and more.
A new study has found that Generative AI technologies like ChatGPT could perform even better than physicians in answering patient's healthcare questions; the drug industry is re-focusing on designing obesity drugs; preventive therapies for haemophilia and more.
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A New Study Finds ChatGPT Outperforms Human Physicians In Quality And Empathy Of Responses To Patient Concerns
"Although artificial intelligence won't replace your doctor any time soon, a new study has found that technologies such as ChatGPT could improve patients' experience by providing responses to their healthcare questions that are more accurate and in a manner they perceive as more empathetic than answers from human doctors."
Beyond Wegovy And Ozempic: Biotechs Vie For Piece Of Red-hot Weight Loss Market With Novel Strategies
"Even though investors were flocking to the biotech sector, the obesity field was a drug development desert, with investment actually dropping, according to data from PitchBook. Weight loss treatments had a checkered history of being ineffective or unsafe, and the few that did make it to market were commercial flops."
Preventative Therapies Continue To Impact Hemophilia Patients' Lives
"It's really exciting to see patients take control of their haemophilia treatment. But as a research community, there is so much more we can — and must — do for patients." - RICHARD KO, A PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGIST AND EXECUTIVE MEDICAL DIRECTOR AT GENENTECH
"Since its initial FDA approval over five years ago, Hemlibra has become the most-prescribed prophylactic treatment available for haemophilia A, treating more than 19,000 people worldwide (according to IQVIA claims data from various insurance plan types from May 2021 – April 2022 and accounts for usage in prophylaxis settings in the US). It's also the only FDA-approved haemophilia A medicine that can be self-administered as a shot under the skin, similar to the way someone with diabetes injects insulin. Alternative treatments must be directly infused into a vein, sometimes multiple times per week."
Why Are We So Focused On Boys When Girls Are The Ones In Crisis?
"Depression and anxiety are serious concerns for people of all ages. But it can be especially troubling in our youth.
For the last several years a great deal of attention has been paid to depression and anxiety in adolescent boys. The narrative states males are underserved in diagnosis and treatment because of social pressures to never ask for help or admit weakness.
But what about the girls? Are they getting the help they need such that rates of depression are dropping?"
In Counties With More Black Doctors, Black People Live Longer, 'Astonishing' Study Finds
"Black people in counties with more Black primary care physicians live longer, according to a new national analysis that provides the strongest evidence yet that increasing the diversity of the medical workforce may be key to ending deeply entrenched racial health disparities."
Extra Reading
Helping To Save More Testicles | NHS Barts Health
"A group of consultants, doctors, young children and teachers have co-created and recently launched a new teaching programme that aims to raise awareness about testicular health and recognise the symptoms of testicular torsion, in boys and young men."
Vast Sequencing Project Begins To Unlock Human Genome's Secrets — By Deciphering Other Mammals' DNA | STAT
"Despite decades of advancements in genomics, we still don't know what most of our DNA does. But an ambitious international research collaboration is providing new answers about how genetics shapes human health and disease, with help from an unlikely source — a menagerie of mammals."
Long-term Projections Of The Impacts Of Warming Temperatures On Zika And Dengue Risk In Four Brazilian Cities Using A Temperature-dependent Basic Reproduction Number | PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Journal
"Rising temperatures through climate change are expected to increase arboviral disease pressure, so understanding the impact of climate change on newly emerging diseases such as Zika is essential to prepare for future outbreaks. However, because disease transmission may be less effective at very high temperatures, it is uncertain whether the risk will uniformly increase in different regions."
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