Articles on medical technology: robotic surgery, advanced imaging, radiotherapy systems and other equipment, explained by what each actually changes for the patient rather than by brand names.
AI in healthcare currently helps hospitals read medical images, flag patients at risk of deterioration such as sepsis, draft clinical notes from recorded visits,…
For most adults, the best home blood pressure monitor is an automatic upper-arm cuff that has passed independent validation testing and fits your arm…
Telehealth can reliably assess conditions a clinician diagnoses mostly by history and by looking: many rashes, mental health concerns, medication follow-ups, chronic disease check-ins…
Most people start to feel noticeably better within a few weeks of their last radiotherapy session, although side effects such as fatigue and skin…
A patient portal is the secure website or app your health system uses to show you appointments, messages, and test results, and since 2021…
Over-the-counter continuous glucose monitors such as Stelo and Lingo show adults without diabetes how blood sugar rises and falls through the day. For most…
The Samsung Galaxy Ring, Oura Ring and Ultrahuman Ring Air all use an optical sensor on the finger to track resting heart rate, nighttime…
Palliative chemotherapy is chemotherapy given with the aim of controlling a cancer rather than curing it. Its goals are to shrink or slow tumors,…
A single external radiotherapy session usually takes about 10 to 30 minutes, and the beam itself is switched on for only a few minutes…
Whoop and Oura both estimate sleep and recovery from an optical pulse sensor, and both detect whether you are asleep or awake with roughly…
AI symptom checkers and chatbots such as ChatGPT are reasonably good at flagging emergencies and at listing plausible causes, but they are not reliable…
AI in radiology means software trained on large image datasets that flags suspicious areas on mammograms and CT scans, sorts urgent cases to the…
Deep brain stimulation is a surgical treatment in which thin electrodes are placed in specific areas of the brain and connected to a small…
For most people, chronic sinusitis cannot be permanently cured in the sense of never returning, but it can usually be brought under long-term control.…
No. An AI cannot be your doctor in any legal or medical sense. AI tools can read scans, summarize records, draft notes and answer…
Cochlear implants work by bypassing damaged hair cells in the inner ear. An external sound processor captures sound, converts it into digital signals, and…
Blood pressure watches such as the Apple Watch do not measure blood pressure. The Apple Watch hypertension notification uses an optical pulse sensor to…
Immunotherapy does not reliably cure stage 4 cancer, but for a minority of patients with certain cancers it has produced remissions lasting many years,…
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