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Dental Therapeutic Applications of Nanotechnology and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The integration of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) in dentistry offers transformative potential for diagnostics, treatment, and prevention. Guided by AI, nanobots can deliver targeted anesthesia, enhance caries prevention strategies, and support orthodontic realignment, whereas advances in nanotechnology simultaneously optimize dental materials and enable more personalized care. To...

Feb 4 2026 41825995

Prognostic Significance of Lymph Node Ratio for Overall Survival in Patients with Lymph Node-Positive Bladder Cancer Post-Radical Cystectomy and Chemotherapy: A Multicenter Cohort Analysis.

BACKGROUND: The lymph node ratio (LNR) is gaining recognition as a prognostic biomarker for various malignant neoplasms. However, its prognostic role in postoperative chemotherapy for high-risk muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) remains unclear. METHODS: This study included 2,320 patients with lymph node-positive T2-4N1-3M0 MIBC receiving postoperative chemotherapy from the Surveillance, Epidem...

Feb 4 2026 41637020
Digital Phenotyping for Adolescent Mental Health: Feasibility Study Using Machine Learning to Predict Mental Health Risk From Active and Passive Smartphone Data.

BACKGROUND: Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to mental disorders, with over 75% of lifetime cases emerging before the age of 25 years. Yet most...

Feb 4 2026 41637624
Medicare advantage becoming a disadvantage with use of artificial intelligence in prior authorization review.

Reported instances of AI-assisted, blanket denials of coverage have increased in recent years, particularly for Medicare Advantage plans, resulting in...

Feb 4 2026 41639200
Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence Conversational Chatbot to Enhance HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Uptake: Development and Usability Internal Testing.

BACKGROUND: The HIV epidemic in the United States disproportionately impacts gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Despite the eff...

Feb 3 2026 41632955
Predicting non-emergency healthcare use in Australia using machine learning on longitudinal household data.

The persistent increase in healthcare expenditure has become a major challenge for the sustainability of public financing worldwide. Therefore, identi...

Feb 3 2026 41629360
A qualitative study assessing the acceptability of a multi-agent AI Chatbot for providing HIV and mental health support among men who have sex with men and transgender women in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

BACKGROUND: Transgender women (TGW) and men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and ment...

Feb 2 2026 41527742
Forecasting Local Surges in COVID-19 Hospitalizations through Adaptive Decision Tree Classifiers.

IntroductionDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, many communities across the United States experienced surges in hospitalizations, which strained the local h...

Feb 2 2026 41626707
Transforming clinical toxicology in Singapore: four decades of progress and beyond.

By examining key milestones, challenges and future directions, this review chronicles the evolution of clinical toxicology in Singapore into a recogni...

Feb 2 2026 41626922
ML-Assisted Olfactory Epidemiology Survey Urbanizing China: A Population-Based Study in Yancheng.

OBJECTIVES: Urbanization-related air pollution may be associated with olfactory dysfunction (OD) in China, yet population studies are lacking. METHODS...

Feb 2 2026 41629258
Interpretable machine learning unveils non-linear inflammatory thresholds and synergistic interactions in post-burn hypertrophic scarring: development of an intelligent clinical decision support system.

Hypertrophic scarring (HS) following severe burns remains a persistent rehabilitative challenge, yet traditional linear prediction models fail to capt...

Feb 2 2026 41629571
Machine Learning Applications in Non-Contact Lower Limb Sports Injury Prediction: A Systematic Review.

Non-contact Lower limb sports injuries represent some of the most prevalent and impactful conditions within athletic populations, prompting increasing...

Feb 1 2026 41710437
A novel, standardised approach to balancing effectiveness, efficiency and utility of surveillance AI prediction models for hospitalised patients using sepsis prediction as an exemplar.

OBJECTIVE: To introduce a novel, standardised approach to evaluating AI prediction models in balancing effectiveness, efficiency and utility, using a ...

Feb 1 2026 41217035
Simulation-based evaluation of ChatGPT for healthcare associated infection surveillance using validated case scenarios.

BACKGROUND: Surveillance for healthcare-associated infections is central to infection prevention but remains complex, resource-intensive, and variable...

Jan 31 2026 41628673
Implementation and current status of frailty assessment in Japanese hospitals: Processes, epidemiology, and future directions.

Frailty has become a pressing health concern in Japan as it has entered a super-aged society. Early identification of frailty is essential to preventi...

Jan 31 2026 41621919
Ten-year population-based assessment of multimorbidity burden progression in a regional cohort of 5.5 million adults.

Multimorbidity, a major driver of healthcare demand and clinical complexity, is often addressed in a disease-centric manner and remains insufficiently...

Jan 31 2026 41620560
Predicting nonresponse to sexual identity question in youth risk behavior surveillance: A machine learning analysis of complex survey data.

PURPOSE: To compare seven machine learning (ML) models developed to predict non-response to the sexual identity question in the 2023 Youth Risk Behavi...

Jan 30 2026 41621502
Outcome Prediction in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Utilizing Social Determinants of Health and Machine Learning Methods.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Considerable socioeconomic disparities exist among pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). This study aims to an...

Jan 30 2026 40789613
How ready are we to use artificial intelligence in our fight against Antimicrobial resistance? An ESGAID and EAAS perspective.

INTRODUCTION: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains one of the greatest threats to global health, requiring innovative approaches to antibiotic disco...

Jan 30 2026 41614375
Assessing the Evolution and Influence of Medical Open Databases on Biomedical Research and Health Care Innovation: A 25-Year Perspective With a Focus on Privacy and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies.

The integration of medical open databases with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies marks a transformative era in biomedical research and health ...

Jan 30 2026 41616270
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