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Doctors' Group Expands Definition of 'Infertility'

Drugs.com

25, 2023 – A new, more inclusive definition of infertility has been crafted by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM). WEDNESDAY, Oct. While the guidance for heterosexual couples with medical reasons for being unable to.

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Medical Groups Issue Consensus Definition of Brain Death

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12, 2023 -- A new guideline from four leading medical organizations should help doctors determine if someone is brain dead. THURSDAY, Oct. “Until now, there have been two separate guidelines for determining brain death, one for adults and one.

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Where is the Ignite Theater tech leading us?

Drug Discovery World

For the patient as well as for doctors, this means creating more time to make decisions, as the company believes: “Patients – and their quality of life – shouldn’t have to wait for a broken system to provide an answer six months too late.

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Healthcare’s Digital Back Door: One Term, Two Meanings and How (or Whether) to Use It

Perficient: Drug Development

There are two main definitions in play in the industry. Which definition is the “right one”? Digital back door definition, take 1 The first application of “digital back door” is simple. Digital back door definition, take 2 The second application of “digital back door” isn’t quite as simple. The first is fairly innocuous.

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Medicinal cannabis: Why more clinical trials and better access is needed

Drug Discovery World

There are more than 1300 clinical trials on cannabis underway and companies focused on the cultivation and manufacturing of cannabis are also educating doctors and patients about its potential pharmaceutical use. Early referendums in 2017 which allowed doctors the freedom to prescribe cannabis was the main driver to growth.

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How AI is accelerating the future of precision medicine

Drug Target Review

Today, diseases are only what we created as a way of naming disorders, a historic creation from doctors who studied patients that had common symptoms. Deep phenotyping and AI could assist in the production of patterns which describe a set of patients – in effect, creating a new disease definition.

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Mother of 4-Year-Old Living With KAND, One of the Rarest Disorders in the World, Advocates to Find a Cure

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“We had her one-year checkup, and the doctor was concerned about her lack of awareness to the environment around her. It was then that doctors determined that Emma has KIF1A Associated Neurological Disorder, or KAND. I definitely do believe she understands that Emma’s different,” Amanda continues.

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