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Children showing signs of autism should be treated before diagnosis is confirmed, under new guidelines

Peter Hess | 
Pediatricians should start treating children who show signs of autism even before tests confirm a diagnosis, according to the newest ...
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Viewpoint: There’s reason for optimism about AI’s ability to diagnose illnesses—but there’s also a lot of hype

Edd Gent | 
Medicine is one of the hottest fields when it comes to applying AI to real-world problems, in particular using deep learning systems to ...
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‘Cancer lab’ on a chip could move diagnosis into our homes

Phil Dooley | 
Finding out you have cancer is bad enough, but to then have to go to hospital for a painful and ...
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At-home diagnostic tests powered by CRISPR soon could help diagnose infectious diseases and even cancer

Emily Mullin | 
Today when you get sick, you need to make an appointment to see your doctor. ... But in the near ...
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Name recognition could be key to an early diagnosis tool for autism

Perri Klass | 
Every pediatrician knows that it’s important to diagnose autism when a child is as young as possible, because when younger ...
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Using genetics and social media to find answers for rare ‘undiagnosed’ diseases

Liz Lewis | 
Having a strange and little-known condition is increasingly becoming a regular part of life, bonding patients together with a common ...
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Artificial intelligence could have a future diagnosing sick children, study says

Emily Willingham | 
With the money and time that visits to the ER and urgent care soak up, the chance to revisit old-fashioned ...
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Viewpoint: We need to get better at diagnosing Alzheimer’s if we hope to improve treatments

Howard Fillit | 
Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., and unlike with cancer and heart disease, we ...
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Finding echoes of cancer journey in Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

Ricki Lewis | 
The 'choose your own path' nature of Bandersnatch echoes a journey with breast cancer ...
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Delayed diagnosis? In some children, autism traits become ‘significantly more pronounced over time’

Hannah Furfaro | 
Some autistic children don’t show traits of the condition until age 5 or later, new research suggests. Others show a ...
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‘It’s not too late’: The quest to reverse autism at any age

Peter Tsai | 
[T]he average age of diagnosis for a child with autism is over four years. Because of late diagnoses, many of ...
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Meet Grunya Sukhareva, the forgotten woman who defined autism

Lina Zeldovich | 
[In 1924,] a gifted young doctor, Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva, saw [a 12-year-old] boy. Caring and attentive, she observed him with ...
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Gender bias: Are we overlooking autism in women and girls?

Hannah Devlin | 
Hundreds of thousands of girls and women with autism are going undiagnosed due to it being viewed as a “male ...
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1 in 10 children diagnosed with ADHD: Why so many?

Rachel Buth | 
The number of children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyper­activity disorder (ADHD) has reached more than 10 percent, a significant increase during the past 20 ...
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When antidepressants fail: Are we looking at a new kind of depression?

Kristen Hovet | 
Depression is one of the most frequently diagnosed mental illnesses, with an estimated 15 percent of the global adult population ...
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Tale of two families: Exome sequencing and faster diagnosis of rare disorders

Ricki Lewis | 
Sailing from New York City to London a century ago took days; today the trip takes hours by air. Similarly, ...
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‘Bad genes’ may not mean you’ll get a disease

Andrew Porterfield | 
Today, personalized medicine hinges on genetic information on risks of disease. Unfortunately, having a disease-associated mutation may bear little to ...
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