ASCLS eNewsBytes

• Telehealth, AI, and the evolution of remote surgical assistance April 30, 2024
  Telehealth has greatly increased patient engagement during the pandemic while AI and remote patient monitoring can increase the chances of detecting diseases or conditions early with real-time monitoring.
• The complex interplay between health equity, hospital infections April 30, 2024
  The risks for certain hospital associated infections differ between urban and rural health care facilities, suggesting a nuanced relationship between health equity and the risk for infection, a study found.
• AI model reduces false positives in screening mammograms April 30, 2024
  A semiautonomous breast cancer screening system reduces false positives with screening mammograms, according to a recent study. Researchers evaluated the ability of a semiautonomous artificial intelligence model to identify screening mammograms not suspicious for breast cancer. The analysis compared performance of humans and AI using three nonoverlapping datasets of 14,831 screening mammography examinations (1,026 cancers).
• Sympathy can help ease vaccine hesitancy April 30, 2024
  Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, has been working in vaccine development for more than 40 years. During that time, the dean of Baylor College of Medicine's National School of Tropical Medicine has had a front-row seat to the rising anti-vaccine movement.
• USDA shares recent H5N1 avian flu sequences amid more dairy herd outbreaks April 30, 2024
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service last night announced that it has shared 239 recent genetic sequences of the H5N1 avian flu virus from poultry, wild birds and dairy cows, which will help scientists look for new clues about the spread of the virus.