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Digital Health 🍁 @digital-health.bsky.social · Feb 27
Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy: an open-label, first-in-human interventional study

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#RetinalDystrophy #AIPL1 #GeneTherapy #MedSky
Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy: an open-label, first-in-human interventional study
Our findings indicate that young children with AIPL1-related retinal dystrophy benefited substantially from subretinal administration of rAAV8.hRKp.AIPL1, with improved visual acuity and functional vi...
www.thelancet.com
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aliciajeanking.bsky.social
To what extent does the reporting of #user input in publications suggest their input is meaningfully shaping the development of #digital #sexualhealth tools?

Our team of international experts answer this question in our #openacces scoping review: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Photographs of a laptop and the hands of someone using a smartphone beside the research question: To what extent does the reporting of user input in publications suggest their input is meaningfully shaping the development of digital sexual health tools?
July 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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aliciajeanking.bsky.social
Our suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools...

Thanks to my coauthors Ethan Cardwell (Uni of Melb.), @katha.bsky.social, Paul Flowers of @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, Mark Gilbert of @ubcpublichealth.bsky.social & @ericpfchow.bsky.social.

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The following text presented using bulleted banners: Suggested guidance for #developers of #digitalsexualhealth tools: 1. Involve end users early 2. Engage your target population, including ‘extreme users’ 3. Create opportunities for unexpected input 4. Involve users more than once 5. Close the feedback loop
July 29, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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aliciajeanking.bsky.social
What did potential users of an #AI application to identify observable changes in their genital or anal area?

Read more in our #openaccess article in #digitalhealth: doi.org/10.1177/2055...

In brief, participants described a potential pathway to better #sexualhealth promoted by the AiSTi tool…

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July 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Exciting progress in Parkinson's research! Early clinical trials of stem-cell therapy show promise in being safe for transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#ClinicalTrial #ParkinsonsDisease #StemCellTherapy #MedicalResearch
Clinical trials test the safety of stem-cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease
Transplanting dopamine-releasing neurons into the brain is a promising regenerative therapy for Parkinson’s disease. Two clinical trials show that it is safe, but more evidence is needed to prove its ...
www.nature.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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madhupai.bsky.social
One of the best decisions I made in my academic career: create a dedicated teaching website: ~20 years of course materials, handouts, tip sheets, videos & more!

FREE to use for teaching with credit!

www.teachepi.org
April 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Higher heart rate and inactivity: Smartwatch data show early signs of long COVID

www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/hig...

#DigitalHealth #LongCovid #SmartWatch #Wearable #HealthData
Higher heart rate and inactivity: Smartwatch data show early signs of long COVID
www.cidrap.umn.edu
March 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Compléments alimentaires: l’Anses met en garde contre les effets indésirables et potentiellement dangereux

Les compléments alimentaires, nécessité d'une consommation éclairée
www.anses.fr/fr/content/l...

#ANSES #France
Les compléments alimentaires, nécessité d'une consommation éclairée
Les compléments alimentaires, concentrés de nutriments, de plantes ou d’autres substances, sont de plus en plus consommés en France. A visée amincissante, anti-stress, revitalisante ou destinés aux sp...
www.anses.fr
March 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
"The vast quantities of data that are produced in health care every day – from doctors’ notes to radiology images – are a nearly untapped resource for innovation and economic growth."

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

#DigitalHealth #HealthData #Interoperability #AI #ClinicalTrial #Canada
Opinion: Without integrating our health data, Canada risks being left behind
By engaging in public-private partnerships, other countries are pulling ahead in having faster and better access to cutting-edge treatments
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
"This guideline highlights the close tradeoff between desirable and undesirable effects and the limitations in the current evidence to support a recommendation"
www.gastrojournal.org/article/S001...

#AI #Colonoscopy
#ComputerAidedDetection #CADe
#Colorectal #Cancer
AGA Living Clinical Practice Guideline on Computer-Aided Detection–Assisted Colonoscopy
This American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) guideline is intended to provide an overview of the evidence and support endoscopists and patients on the use of computer-aided detection (CADe) sys...
www.gastrojournal.org
March 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#DigitalHealth #ECG #AI #DeepLearning #MedSky
Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling
www.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
"By extracting deeper insights from familiar technologies like #ECGs, chest X-rays, oximeters, and stethoscopes, #AI is turning them into dynamic platforms for #diagnosis, #prediction, and #prevention"

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

#DigitalHealth #ECG
Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Clinical Tools With AI
AI reveals hidden patterns in ECGs that human experts can't see, transforming a century-old clinical tool into a powerful predictive system.
www.psychologytoday.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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erictopol.bsky.social
New and encouraging results for a combined flu and Covid mRNA vaccine randomized clinical trial in >1,200 healthy adults age 18-79
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
mRNA-based seasonal influenza and SARS-CoV-2 multicomponent vaccine in healthy adults: a phase 1/2 trial - Nature Medicine
An interim analysis shows that a new mRNA influenza and SAR-CoV-2 combination vaccine is safe and triggers an encouraging immune response.
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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erictopol.bsky.social
A nonsensical threat to:
One of the most important advances in biotechnology of our time, already being used to successfully treat refractory cancers, enable genome editing, develop vaccines for infectious diseases for which there are none, treat autoimmune diseases, and more.
March 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
digital-health.bsky.social
In Trump's America, epidemiology is no longer allowed

epiellie.substack.com/p/in-trumps-...

#PublicHealth #Epidemilogy
In Trump's America, epidemiology is no longer allowed
Is this a feature or a bug?
epiellie.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC

www.wired.com/story/a-dead...

"More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial analysis suggests neither Ebola nor Marburg is the cause."

#DRC #Outbreak #MedSky #ID
https://www.wired.com/story/a-deadly-unidentified-disease-has-emerged-in-the-drc-ebola-marburg/"More
February 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Causal association between remnant cholesterol level and risk of cardiovascular diseases: a bidirectional two sample mendelian randomization study

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39511362/

"RC-lowering treatment might be effective in preventing CVDs"

#Cardiovascular #Risk #Remnant #Cholesterol #MedSky
Causal association between remnant cholesterol level and risk of cardiovascular diseases: a bidirectional two sample mendelian randomization study - PubMed
Serum lipids have been associated with an increased risk of various cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in several observational studies, but the causal inference between the remnant cholesterol (RC) level...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 27, 2025 at 2:00 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy: an open-label, first-in-human interventional study

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#RetinalDystrophy #AIPL1 #GeneTherapy #MedSky
Gene therapy in children with AIPL1-associated severe retinal dystrophy: an open-label, first-in-human interventional study
Our findings indicate that young children with AIPL1-related retinal dystrophy benefited substantially from subretinal administration of rAAV8.hRKp.AIPL1, with improved visual acuity and functional vi...
www.thelancet.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
AI ‘scribe’ increases face-to-face time with patients

www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re...

#DigitalHealth #Scribe #AI
AI ‘scribe’ increases face-to-face time with patients
Using an artificial intelligence-powered system to “listen” to patient visits and take notes increased clinician face time with patients and reduced after-hours work.
www.pennmedicine.org
February 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Using multimodal A.I. to more accurately predict a person's risk of cancer (and other conditions) by combining proteomics and electronic health records via @erictopol.bsky.social

#DigitalHealth #AI #MachineLearning

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
A machine learning approach to leveraging electronic health records for enhanced omics analysis - Nature Machine Intelligence
COMET, an artificial intelligence method that improves the analysis of small medical studies using large clinical databases, has been created. COMET can help develop better artificial intelligence too...
www.nature.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
How does the public feel about health technologies and data?

www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

"perspectives vary across socioeconomic groups, with those in socioeconomic groups D and E notably less positive"

#DigitalHealth #HealthData #NHS
December 19, 2024 at 1:14 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Trump allies have vowed to squash research and fire adversaries

www.science.org/content/arti...

“You’ve got to be prepared to walk away...But if you’re going to walk away, you have to stand on top of a soapbox and broadcast what happened.”

#Climate #Science #Anti-science
U.S. climate scientists gird for a second Trump administration
Trump allies have vowed to squash research and fire adversaries
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-climate-scientists-gird-second-trump-administration?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ScienceAdviser&utm_content=quotable&et_rid=1078411588&et_cid=5468200“You’ve
December 19, 2024 at 1:01 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Long-term condition combinations play major role in NHS winter pressures

"The risk of hospital admission was found to be 11 times higher among those with the quartet of cardiovascular disease, cancer, kidney disease, and type 2 diabetes"

#NHS #Hospitalization #ChronicDiseases
Specific long-term condition combinations play major role in NHS winter pressures - British Heart Foundation - Data Science Centre
New research has found that specific combinations of chronic health conditions have a major role in the additional pressures the NHS faces every winter. Winter pressures are prompted by the worsening ...
bhfdatasciencecentre.org
December 19, 2024 at 12:47 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

" a result of eLife’s 2023 introduction of a radical publishing model in which it no longer ‘accepts’ or ‘rejects’ manuscripts, but posts all submissions"

#eLife #PeerReview #Publishing
Pioneering journal eLife faces major test after loss of impact factor
The open-access title’s bold publishing model has bought long-bubbling conflicts to the fore.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2024 at 12:39 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Race, Ethnicity, and Sleep in US Children

"[]sleep data from racially and ethnically minoritized children exhibited shorter sleep duration and later bedtime, as well as greater variability in bedtime and risetime, than their non-Hispanic White peers"

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

#SDOH #Medsky
Race, Ethnicity, and Sleep in US Children
This cross-sectional study analyzes differences in sleep levels and sleep variability among racially and ethnically diverse children in the US.
jamanetwork.com
December 18, 2024 at 4:55 PM
digital-health.bsky.social
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted

www.science.org/content/arti...

"Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds"

#Covid19 #Hydroxychloroquine #Retraction #Raoult #IHU #MedSky
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
www.science.org
December 18, 2024 at 4:07 PM