Latest AI and machine learning research in primary care for healthcare professionals.
BACKGROUND: The ethical, legal, and social issues accompanying the latest advancements in digital health technologies highlight the need to involve the public in their design, development, and deployment to align with societal values and needs. For public engagement to be meaningful, it should be participatory, inclusive, and scalable. However, studies in participatory digital health do not charac...
PURPOSE: Digital cough screening for COVID-19 detection shows promise, but population differences in cough acoustics and screening accuracy require investigation. This study examined cough characteristics and COVID-19 screening performance in Lima, Peru and Montreal, Canada. METHODS: Cough recordings and clinical data were prospectively collected from 605 adults. COVID-19 and other respiratory pat...
BACKGROUND: Environmental health services in healthcare facilities-including water, sanitation, hygiene, waste management, cleaning, and infection con...
Osteoporosis and diabetes represent major global public health challenges. Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) serve as key components of the innate...
The thymus is essential for establishing T cell diversity early in life, but undergoes profound involution with age and has therefore traditionally be...
OBJECTIVES: Although artificial intelligence, including machine learning offers transformative potential, its use in infectious disease epidemiology h...
BACKGROUND: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a dynamic chronic disease. Specific disease trajectories remain unclear. OBJECTI...
BACKGROUND: Inguinal hernia repair, particularly transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) repair, is a common surgical procedure. However, seroma formation...
OBJECTIVES: Colonoscopy is an essential tool for diagnosing and treating colorectal diseases, with bowel preparation serving as a key determinant of i...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a critical transitional stage between normal aging and dementia that remains challenging to detect. Many traditiona...
INTRODUCTION: Teicoplanin is widely used to treat pulmonary infections, particularly in critically ill patients with gram-positive bacterial infection...
INTRODUCTION: Aldosterone dysregulation (excess aldosterone production at the source within the adrenal glands) in the absence of primary aldosteronis...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Family caregivers face elevated risks for mental and physical health issues but have difficulty accessing informational and...
INTRODUCTION: The identification of non-diabetic kidney disease (NDKD) in diabetic patients is critically important. Unlike diabetic nephropathy, NDKD...
BACKGROUND: Otitis media (OM) is a common pediatric infection worldwide. Conventionally, accurate diagnosis depends on in-person pneumatic otoscopy, w...
Diabetic kidney disease (DKD), characterized by progressive renal dysfunction, is a prevalent microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus and a le...
Chronic stress is an important threat in Public Health, as it negatively impacts both the Body and Mind. Current methods for measuring and identifying...
Skeletal fluorosis (SF) is a chronic metabolic bone disease resulting from long-term excessive fluoride exposure, affecting millions worldwide. Conven...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming dietary assessment, yet few tools have been clinically validated against physiological reference methods....