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Last year, I partnered with colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, to examine the challenges represented by artificial intelligence bias and identify some preliminary guidance for addressing them.

HONOLULU — 2020 COVID-19 hospitalizations requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cost significantly more and had lengthier stays than those that did not utilize ECMO, according to study results presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

The presence of a precision medicine navigator significantly improved genomic testing rates among Black men with prostate cancer, according to study results.

Researchers observed similar outcomes between hypofractionated and conventional radiation therapy among patients with alcohol- and tobacco-associated, locally advanced head and neck cancer, according to phase 3 study results.

Surgeons should consider suppressive antibiotic therapy after debridement, antibiotics and implant retention in patients with periprosthetic joint infection to maximize reoperation-free survival, according to published results.

Avoiding unnecessary urine cultures was more effective in reducing antibiotic use in hospitalized patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria than stewardship efforts focused on reducing unnecessary antibiotic treatment, a recent study found.

Heart transplantation is considered standard therapy for patients with end-stage HF, and survival and the availability of donor hearts have continued to improve over time.

A combination of complex causes likely contributed to the death of the man who received the world’s first genetically modified pig heart transplant in 2022, including the presence of a latent porcine virus, researchers reported.

Patients with a greater understanding of sling necessity, as determined by an adherence questionnaire, had increased sling compliance after shoulder surgery compared with patients with a lesser understanding, results showed.

Increased fat mass, particularly visceral adiposity, promotes kidney disease generation and progression through direct and indirect mechanisms, and pharmacologic treatment is necessary to avoid adverse outcomes, according to a speaker.