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Developing the genomic workforce: insights from a national survey
Genomic medicine is being implemented on a global scale, requiring a genomic-competent health workforce. Here we describe the 'behind the scenes' thinking for our national survey of non-genetic physicians, and how the insights can be used to inform education as part of implementation strategies.
Medicines and Breastfeeding: complicated questions
Our Questions
• Do medicines prescribed to mothers reduce the chances of successful breastfeeding?
• Do infants suffer adverse drug reactions (ADRs) following exposure via breastmilk?
• What can we do about this?
Detecting changes and loss of smell during COVID-19 with Large Language Models
Reports in March 2020 suggested new loss of smell as one of the symptoms of COVID-19. We here implemented a method that could use a straightforward collection of written comments describing changes in smell perception to reveal characteristics and predict who was infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus
Complete remission of diabetes mellitus
Pancreas or islet transplantation have been performed with the goal of curing diabetes mellitus. Recently, gene therapy and regenerative medicine using iPS or ES cells have also been newly proposed. However, these therapies are not sufficient for more than 500 million patients in the world 1.
Generating synthetic mixed-type longitudinal electronic health records for artificial intelligent applications
Can synthetic data improve AI models? A generative model for synthesizing mixed-type timeseries health records, including physiological signals, lab test results, and medication uses, improves the downstream applications of AI method in critical care.