News from NYU Langone Health
AI-Powered Chatbots Changing Medicine (Northwest Prime Time)
Northwest Prime Time (4/11) “Led by researchers at NYU Langone Health, the current paper explores the application of ChatGPT to the design of a software program that uses text messages to counter diabetes by encouraging patients to eat healthier and get exercise.” Study corresponding author “Danissa Rodriguez, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Population Health, and member of its Healthcare Innovation Bridging Research, Informatics and Design (HiBRID) Lab,” said, “ChatGPT improves communications between technical and non-technical team members to hasten the design of computational solutions to medical problems.”
How To Talk to Your Family About Their Heart Health History (TIME)
TIME (4/11) Daniele Massera, MD, associate director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program at NYU Langone Heart, assistant professor, Department of Medicine, the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, said, “Whatever [health conditions] affects your family members might directly affect you.”
Driving at Night Can Get Harder Starting As Early As Your Late 20s. Here’s How to Improve Nighttime Vision (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News (4/11) Dry eye “‘worsens with age and can cause the vision to be blurred, especially when people are tired,’ Christina Prescott, MD, PhD, vice chair of education, associate professor, Department of Ophthalmology, tells Yahoo Life.”
Speedy Eating And Late-Night Meals May Take A Toll On Health (Medscape)
Paywall* Medscape (4/11) ‘The focus would be to eat a meal that syncs during those daytime hours,’ Collin Popp, PhD, MS, RD, a research scientist at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, told Medscape Medical News.”
Also reporting is WebMD (4/11).
First US Adult ADHD Guidelines Finally on the Way? (Medscape)
Paywall* Medscape (4/11) “Development of the” American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders (APSARD) “guidelines is led by Thomas Spencer, MD, a retired associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and Frances Rudnick Levin, MD, the Kennedy-Leavy Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, both of whom have decades of experience and clinical work in adults with ADHD,” where they are “joined on the executive committee by Lenard A. Adler, MD, professor, Department of Psychiatry, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, along with 30 others who have expertise in psychiatry, psychology, primary care, and other health professions.”
When Gerrit Cole, Jasson Domínguez Could Return (New York Post)
The New York Post (4/11) “Michael J. Alaia, MD, professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, joins New York Post Sports anchor Brandon London for the weekly ‘Injury Report’ segment,” where “Alaia explains the potential obstacles for Yankees ace Gerrit Cole to avoid while he deals with nerve inflammation in his right elbow and why position players like the Bombers’ top prospect Jasson Domínguez tend to recover from Tommy John surgery faster than pitchers.”
PCOS And Endometriosis Can Both Mess With Your Period, But They’re Totally Different Conditions (Women’s Health)
Women's Health (4/11) Polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis “‘are two relatively common gynecological conditions,’ says Taraneh Shirazian, MD, associate professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
As Subway Collisions Rise, Train Operators Feeling The Pain (The City)
The City (4/11) “A 2023 MTA report on track trespassing – done in partnership with the Department of Psychiatry at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine – found that mental illness accounted for 20% of the 1,364 instances of track trespassing the previous year, second only to unauthorized occupancy of the tracks, which includes going onto the tracks for no apparent reason.”
