5 million healthy Britons will be tracked in bid to detect disease sooner
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5 million healthy Britons will be tracked in bid to detect disease sooner

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This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/05/5-million-healthy-britons-will-tracked-bid-detect-disease-sooner/ By  Laura Donnelly, health editor at the Telegraph news Five million healthy Britons will be tracked for years in attempt to develop artificial intelligence which spots signs of cancer and dementia far earlier. Ministers said the measures – part of Britain’s industrial strategy – will form the largest ever study of its…

Mental health and pain problems could be better understood through AI
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Mental health and pain problems could be better understood through AI

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This article was taken from: https://www.standard.co.uk/futurelondon/health/dr-chris-eccleston-on-ai-in-mental-health-and-pain-a3998406.html By Jessica Taylor There are around 740 million people living in Europe today. About 140 million of those people are living in chronic pain, according to pain specialist Dr Chris Eccleston of Bath University. Dr Eccleston is known in his field for researching how the human brain processes pain and the…

Artificial intelligence as good as human doctors at spotting early signs of blindness
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Artificial intelligence as good as human doctors at spotting early signs of blindness

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This article was taken from: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/08/13/artificial-intelligence-good-human-doctors-spotting-early-signs/ By Sarah Knapton, science editor Artificial intelligence is now as good as human doctors at spotting early signs of blindness, a new collaboration between DeepMind and the NHS has shown. The new a system can spot 50 eye problems including as age-related macular degeneration and diabetic eye disease with 94 per cent accuracy and even…

London hospitals to replace doctors and nurses with AI for some tasks
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London hospitals to replace doctors and nurses with AI for some tasks

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This article was taken from: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/21/london-hospitals-to-replace-doctors-and-nurses-with-ai-for-some-tasks By Hannah Devlin Science correspondent UCLH aims to bring ‘game-changing’ benefits of artificial intelligence to NHS patients, from cancer diagnosis to reducing wait times One of the country’s biggest hospitals has unveiled sweeping plans to use artificial intelligence to carry out tasks traditionally performed by doctors and nurses, from diagnosing cancer on…