AbbVie Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for Upadacitinib (RINVOQ®) for the Treatment of Adults and Adolescents with Non-segmental Vitiligo

If approved, upadacitinib is expected to be the first systemic medication for patients with non-segmental vitiligo, addressing important treatment needs ...
Artnet News

Botticelli’s ‘Venus’ May Hold Clues to a Fatal Illness, Researchers Say

Experts have offered more evidence backing their 2019 claim that Simonetta Vespucci, the model in Boticelli's 'Birth of Venus ...
Frontiers

Understanding Pediatric Tuberculosis: Current Challenges and Future Directions

Tuberculosis (TB) in children remains a significant yet often under-recognized public health challenge. Despite global ...
Thorax

Social and health factors associated with postmortem diagnosis of tuberculosis in England: a national, retrospective cohort study

Introduction People diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) after death (postmortem) experience the ultimate diagnostic delay. We ...
Indian Defence Review

For Centuries, Everyone Got Simonetta’s Death Wrong. A New Study Says It Was Something Else Entirely

For centuries, Simonetta's sudden death at 23 was blamed on tuberculosis. Now researchers using AI facial analysis and ...
LinkedIn

When the Algorithm Is Wrong: What Doctors Know About AI That Patients Don't

Last year, a colleague forwarded me an AI-generated patient summary. The chief complaint was fever, fatigue, and night sweats. The AI's differential diagnosis led with lymphoma and tuberculosis — both ...
IEEE

Mitigating Domain Shift in AI-Based TB Screening With Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

Abstract: We demonstrate that Domain Invariant Feature Learning (DIFL) can improve the out-of-domain generalizability of a deep learning Tuberculosis (TB) screening algorithm. It is well known that ...
AllAfrica.com

Namibia Fails to Detect 34% of TB Cases

Health and social services minister Esperance Luvindao says the government is missing an estimated 34% of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Namibia, leaving many infected people undiagnosed and outside the ...
Businessworld

AI Should Bridge Health Inequities, Not Be Confined To Algorithms: Anupriya Patel

Artificial Intelligence in healthcare should be judged by its impact on people’s lives and its ability to reduce inequities, not merely by technological sophistication, Union Minister of State for ...
BMJ

Evaluating the diagnostic accuracy of WHO-recommended treatment decision algorithms for childhood tuberculosis using an individual person dataset: a study protocol

Introduction In 2022, the WHO conditionally recommended the use of treatment decision algorithms (TDAs) for treatment decision-making in children <10 years with presumptive tuberculosis (TB), aiming ...
BMJ

Catalysing Artificial Intelligence for Paediatric Tuberculosis Research (CAPTURE): protocol for a global multicentre study establishing a paediatric chest X-ray repository to ...

Introduction The substantial case detection gap in the field of child tuberculosis (TB) disease is largely driven by inadequate diagnostic tools and approaches. Chest radiographs (CXRs) remain a key ...
IEEE

TB-FusionNet: A Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Algorithm With Spatial and Channel Cross-Attention for Tuberculosis Detection

Abstract: The lesions of tuberculosis (TB) in X-ray images are highly complex, exhibiting a variety of sizes, shapes, and structural variations. Single-scale features are insufficient to fully ...