Hacker News with Generative AI: Medical Technology

A.I. Chatbots Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness (nytimes.com)
In an experiment, doctors who were given ChatGPT to diagnose illness did only slightly better than doctors who did not. But the chatbot alone outperformed all the doctors.

Artificial Intelligence, Medical Technology, Chatbots

46 points by vinni2 3 days ago | 23 comments

Defibrillation devices save lives using 1k times less electricity (phys.org)
In a paper published in Chaos, researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta used an electrophysiological computer model of the heart's electrical circuits to examine the effect of the applied voltage field in multiple fibrillation-defibrillation scenarios.

Medical Technology, Science, Cardiology

114 points by wglb 15 days ago | 73 comments

Brain stimulation at home helps to treat depression (nature.com)
A device that delivers a small electrical current to the brain has beneficial effects in cases of depression that doesn't respond to drugs or therapy.

Depression, Neuroscience, Medical Technology, Mental Health

3 points by Phreaker00 17 days ago | 1 comments

Low-cost, portable device can detect colorectal and prostate cancer in an hour (medicalxpress.com)
Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso have created a portable device that can detect colorectal and prostate cancer more cheaply and quickly than prevailing methods.

Cancer, Medical Technology, Healthcare, Research

138 points by PaulHoule 19 days ago | 40 comments

Functional ultrasound through the skull (vercel.app)
Functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) is an awesome new technology for imaging brain activity.

Medical Technology, Neuroscience, Imaging

247 points by lawrenceyan 20 days ago | 88 comments

'Smart' insulin prevents diabetic highs – and deadly lows (nature.com)
Scientists have designed a new form of insulin that can automatically switch itself on and off depending on glucose levels in the blood. In animals, this ‘smart’ insulin1 reduced high blood-sugar concentrations effectively while preventing levels from dropping too low.

Medical Technology, Diabetes, Biotechnology, Health

119 points by gmays 21 days ago | 27 comments

AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said (scrippsnews.com)
Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.”

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Medical Technology

24 points by croes 23 days ago | 1 comments

Artificial Wombs Could Transform Neonatal Care and Revolutionize Parenthood (gilmorehealth.com)
The idea of creating an artificial womb—technology that mimics the protective environment of a natural uterus—has moved from the realm of science fiction to serious medical research.

Artificial Wombs, Medical Technology, Healthcare, Parenthood

6 points by amichail 30 days ago | 1 comments

Device could deliver bedside blood test results in an hour (colorado.edu)
CU Boulder researchers hope to change that with a new handheld, sound-based diagnostic system able to deliver precise results in an hour with a mere finger prick of blood.

Medical Technology, Healthcare, Blood Tests, Research, Diagnostics

8 points by jonbaer 31 days ago | 1 comments

Why Surgeons Are Wearing the Apple Vision Pro in Operating Rooms (time.com)
Twenty-four years ago, the surgeon Santiago Horgan performed the first robotically assisted gastric-bypass surgery in the world, a major medical breakthrough. Now Horgan is working with a new tool that he argues could be even more transformative in operating rooms: the Apple Vision Pro.

Medical Technology, Augmented Reality, Surgery, Apple, Healthcare

10 points by goldenskye 37 days ago | 0 comments

GLP-1 pills are coming, and they could revolutionize weight-loss treatment (cnn.com)

Health, Weight Loss, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Technology

31 points by paulpauper 44 days ago | 131 comments

ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day (newatlas.com)
An innovative start-up is out to change how attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is managed, bypassing the traditional route of medication to instead use non-invasive light electrical brain stimulation delivered by a headband worn for just 20 minutes a day.

ADHD, Neuroscience, Medical Technology, Health

44 points by ludovicianul 63 days ago | 93 comments

Neuralink Received Breakthrough Device Designation from the FDA for Blindsight (twitter.com)

Neuralink, FDA, Medical Technology, Blindness, Neuroscience

12 points by marc__1 65 days ago | 4 comments

Light-based technique shows 90% accuracy in early prostate cancer detection (medicalxpress.com)

Prostate Cancer, Medical Technology, Healthcare, Cancer Detection

130 points by amichail 80 days ago | 25 comments

Injectable heart stimulator for emergency situations (lunduniversity.lu.se)

Medical Technology, Health, Emergency Medicine

4 points by geox 83 days ago | 0 comments

Smart mask for exhaled breath condensate harvesting and analysis (science.org)