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How does the rare cancer mucinous carcinoma respond to radiotherapy?
A retrospective cohort study by Mo et al published in 2022 concluded the following:
Among women with T1-2N0M0 (tumor size ≤ 3 cm) pure mucinous breast cancer, the addition of radiotherapy after ...
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Detecting a medical emergency based on the symptoms the patient presents
Taking the question as written, no there are not standard rules that universally apply.
Actually determining whether someone has a medical emergency is based on assessment by a clinician, which will ...
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How does the rare cancer mucinous carcinoma respond to radiotherapy?
In addition to Chris's answer. I see the following article in Pubmed:
Di Saverio S, Gutierrez J, Avisar E. A retrospective review with long term follow up of 11,400 cases of pure mucinous breast ...
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Machine learning for medical image scanning
Commonly used diagnostic imaging methods are:
Ultrasonography
X-ray
Computed tomography (CT)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Scintigraphy or radionuclide scan (injecting a radioactive tracer into a ...
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What factors besides age and genetics influence the prevalence of Alzheimer's?
How about this list from the Alzheimer Society of Canada? It differentiates between modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors and goes on to explain how and why which risk factors are risk factors.
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What is the quantitative relationship between free T4 and TSH?
The relation between TSH and free T4 is bidirectional and complex [1–4]. TSH stimulates the secretion of T4 from the thyroid gland. Immediately after being released into the bloodstream the vast ...
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Is Kiwi low or high fructose?
According to NutritionData (data from US Department of Agriculture - USDA.gov), 100 g of kiwi fruit contains 4.4 g fructose and 4.1 g glucose. The wch.sa.gov.au site in the question lists kiwi as high ...
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Why are the majority of patients with Edwards Syndrome females?
According to this article, the ratio of affected females/males differs when you look at liveborn or prenatal infants, which indicates a prenatal selection against males (i.e. more males are ...
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What data supports the safety of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines for women of childbearing age?
Clinical Trials
Initial safety data comes from the pre-approval clinical trials, as summarized by Male (2021):
Note that pregnant women were not enrolled in the trials, and participants were asked to ...
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Example Public Data in FHIR Format
Large artificial dataset
There is a large synthetic dataset of fake electronic health records available at Synthetic Mass. It's not a real dataset, but it's supposed to mirror many of the properties ...
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Is it possible to meassure anxiety/stress via data collected from smart watches for a whole region?
Tiwari et al, 2019 found poor sensitivity and specificity for detecting stress using multiple features from a fitness watch: sensitivity 0.53, specificity 0.56, and similarly poor for anxiety: ...
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Database with diseases and symptoms?
There's an App call Ada. It's only available for iOS. It's an IA based bot that ask you about your symptoms and gives you a diagnostic. It was pretty accurate with some regular illnesses. It's much ...
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How can I quickly know whether a medical treatment is supported by evidence?
A quick way to know if a certain treatment method is supported by scientific evidence without asking a physician is to check some free and easy-to-read evidence-based medical articles on sites like:
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What factors besides age and genetics influence the prevalence of Alzheimer's?
This Medscape article July 29, 2023 projected an actual count of AD cases in Chicago to the entire US population by race and suggested that
In addition to older age, what’s likely driving elevated AD ...
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Did the NIH study find Moderna - Moderna gave more antibodies than Moderna-Pfizer?
TLDR: in the actual paper/preprint, neither for the raw antibody values nor for the ratio relative to day 1 is there a statistically significant difference between Moderna-after-Moderna and Pfzier-...
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Where can I find an up-to-date checklist for HIPAA compliance (extra points for newbie friendly ones)?
Here are a few suggestions I think might help:
HHS.gov Official Resources
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers detailed HIPAA compliance tools, tailored for both beginners and ...
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COVID-19 data sets with patient-level demographic information (e.g. age)
This question in opendata.SE has answers that might help.
There are three answers at the time of writing
Anthem XPRIZE
Github large dataset
South Korean data
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Machine learning for medical image scanning
I would like to make a recommendation, as a researcher also working in medical imaging. You state that you are interested in predicting lesion diameter, patient gender, and patient age from the scans. ...
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Database with diseases and symptoms?
There are quite some symptom checkers available - this one seems to perform well in benchmarks and allows free text input: https://www.symptoma.com/
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