Could Personalized PSA Levels Enhance Prostate Cancer Screening?
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening has long been the gold standard for detecting prostate cancer at an early stage, aiming to improve treatment outcomes and increase survival rates. But the screening tool is not without its controversies. PSA levels can be...
Here’s What to Know About the First Approved Pill Treatment for Postpartum Depression
On Friday, August 4, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Zurzuvae™ (zuranolone), developed by pharmaceutical firms Biogen and Sage Therapeutics, to treat postpartum depression. The treatment is a pill taken once daily for 14 days, and is the...
AI Spotlight: Mapping Out Links Between Drugs and Birth Defects
Birth defects can be linked to many factors—genetic, environmental, even pure chance. Characterizing the links of any factor to congenital abnormalities is a daunting task, given the vastness of the problem. In the face of this challenge, a team of researchers at the...
Mount Sinai’s Role in Hemodialysis: From the First Treatment in the United States to Continuing Innovations
It has been more than 75 years since Mount Sinai conducted the first hemodialysis treatment in the United States in 1948, a monumental accomplishment, and Mount Sinai continues to play a leading role in research to help patients in need of this lifesaving treatment....
Mount Sinai Researchers Play a Prominent Role in a Wide Probe Into Long COVID
RECOVER—Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery—is a nationwide initiative dedicated to understanding why some people develop long-term symptoms following COVID-19 infection. Recently, for the first time, the project yielded outcomes that are expected to help...
AI Spotlight: Guiding Heart Disease Diagnosis Through Transformer Models
Electrocardiograms (ECGs) are often used by health providers to diagnose heart disease. At times, irregularities in the recordings are too subtle to be detected by human eyes but can be identified by artificial intelligence (AI). Mount Sinai researchers have developed an AI model, called HeartBEiT, for ECG analysis, which works by interpreting ECGs as language.
Delivering the Future of Vaccines With mRNA Technology
One of the great tools that helped turned the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic was the use of vaccines, especially those based on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. Such vaccines use molecules that teach the cells in the body to generate proteins used by viruses or cancers, allowing the body’s immune system to recognize and fight off future infections.
AI Spotlight: Forecasting ICU Patient States for Improved Outcomes
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have seen increasing use in health care, from guiding clinicians in diagnosis to helping them decide the best course of treatment. However, AI still has much unrealized potential in various health care settings.
Yellow III Trial Finds That Lipid Lowering With a PCSK9 Inhibitor Could Benefit Heart Patients on Statin Therapy
Even after high-intensity statin therapy, a considerable residual risk exists for heart attack and stroke among adults with coronary artery disease (CAD). A clinical study led by Mount Sinai offers strong evidence that aggressive lipid lowering with a proprotein...