This section focuses on recent global studies and discoveries in the various fields of healthcare.
Traumatic Brain Injury TBI and stroke are devastating neurological conditions that affect hundreds of people daily Unfortunately detecting TBI and stroke without specific imaging techniques or access to a hospital often proves difficult
Neurodevelopment in the first years of life is a critical time window during which milestones that define an individuals functional potential are achieved Comprehensive multimodal neurodevelopmental monitoring
Missing data presents a challenge for machine learning applications specifically when utilizing electronic health records to develop clinical decision support systems The lack of these values is due in part to the complex nature of clinical data in which the content is personalized to each patient
Coronary artery disease CAD type diabetes TD and depression are among the leading causes of chronic morbidity and mortality worldwide Epidemiological studies indicate a substantial degree of multimorbidity which may be explained by shared genetic influences
Antipsychotic medications are commonly prescribed to critically ill adult patients and initiation of new antipsychotic prescriptions in the intensive care unit ICU increases the proportion of patients discharged home on antipsychotics
Diagnostic and prognostic models are increasingly important in medicine and inform many clinical decisions Recently machine learning approaches have shown improvement over conventional modeling techniques by better capturing complex interactions between patient covariates in a datadriven manner
Singlecentre studies suggest that successive Coronavirus Disease COVIDrelated lockdown restrictions in England may have led to significant changes in the characteristics of major trauma patients
SHeterozygous variants in the glucocerebrosidase GBA gene are common and potent risk factors for Parkinsons disease PD GBA also causes the autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder LSD Gaucher disease
Multimorbidity the presence of or more longterm conditions is a global clinical and public health priority Most people with a given longterm condition also have comorbidities referring to additional longterm conditions in the context of an index condition
Frequent assessment of the severity of illness for hospitalized patients is essential in clinical settings to prevent outcomes such as inhospital mortality and unplanned admission to the intensive care unit ICU Classical severity scores have been developed typically using relatively few patient features
