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Dr. Sanjay Gupta: I have a family history of Alzheimer’s disease. I wanted to understand my own risk
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For the documentary “The Last Alzheimer’s Patient,” Dr. Sanjay Gupta underwent intensive testing of his own body and brain to understand his risk of dementia.
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Your medical chart: it's hard to access, impossible to read -- and full of information that could make you healthier if you just knew how to use it. At TEDMED, Thomas Goetz looks at medical data, making a bold call to redesign it and get more insight from it.
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A 55-year old man reduced signs of Alzheimer’s in his blood through lifestyle changes and a personalized regime of supplements and medications.
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A review of a limited number of cases of unresponsive patients with severe traumatic brain injuries raised questions about a custom of making a decision within 72 hours.
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There are always deserving issues that miss out, but I was equally delighted to see funding for endometriosis as for miscarriage
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This AI performs better than earlier models like GPT-4, especially in medical benchmarks. It scores an impressive 91.1% on the MedQA-USMLE test and outperforms GPT-4 by 44.5% on various tests. Med-Gemini excels in summarizing medical information, writing doctor referrals, and simplifying medical documents. It's now favored over human experts for complex medical text analysis. This advancement shows significant promise for enhancing medical diagnostics and patient care, marking a major step in AI for healthcare.
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