Category: Technology
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Helpful Tool or Hazard: How Should Physicians Treat AI Chatbots Providing Medical Advice?
Alex Steele ’28 As long as the internet has been publicly accessible, individuals have used it to search for medical information. By 2002, when more than half of Americans had internet access, 80% of U.S. adults online were estimated to have searched for health-related information on the web (McMullan, 2006). Throughout the 2000s and 2010s,…
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The Rise of Digital Phenotyping in Mental Health
Chimamanda Udodi ’28 Each day, often without our awareness, our phones collect small clues about our lifestyle, including typing speed, sleep-wake patterns, phone use, daily routes, and social interactions. Experts in digital mental health have uncovered a new possibility for this data: the ability to identify subtle mood shifts before individuals become aware of them.…
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Electric Healing: How Bioelectronic Medicine Is Redefining the Future of Treatment
Chimamanda Udodi ’28 For over a century, modern medicine has depended heavily on pharmaceuticals to treat disease. Antibiotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, and biologic drugs have transformed healthcare and saved millions of lives. While these molecular interventions are undeniably transformative, they often rely on systemic circulation, traveling throughout the entire body to reach a single target. In…