Eric Topol
physician-scientist, author, editor. My new book is #DeepMedicine
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Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Health Care Human Again
YouTube 8h 1 tweets
In his new book, Deep Medicine, Eric Topol – cardiologist, geneticist, digital medicine researcher – claims that artificial intelligence can put the humanity...
Eric Topol You can see the whole session here (w/ the laughter) 8h
Media coverage and firearm acquisition in the aftermath of a mass shooting
Nature Human Behaviour 9h 2 tweets
Porfiri et al. show that firearm acquisitions in the United States increase with mass shootings, and this growth may be driven by anticipation of stricter regulations as media coverage about gun control increases with shooting events.
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Eric Topol "A mass shooting is followed by an approximately 15% increase in the number of newly introduced firearm-related bills, but the laws actually enacted have mostly loosened previous restrictions." Mass shootings and the media 9h
Noninvasive preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy in spent medium may be more reliable than trophectoderm biopsy
PNAS 9h 1 tweets
In clinical in vitro fertilization (IVF), the prevailing method for preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) requires biopsying a few cells from the trophectoderm (TE), the lineage that forms the placenta. The test is invasive,...
Eric Topol How a smart non-invasive sequencing assay can improve accuracy of preimplantation diagnosis of IVF embryos, including mosaicism by 9h
Scoring of Coronary Artery Disease Characteristics on Coronary CT Angiograms by Using Machine Learning | Radiology
Pubs.rsna.org 11h 1 tweets
Eric Topol When #AI doesn't just pick up the imaging features better, but also improves upon prediction of clinical events (like heart attack, heart related deaths) #openaccess by 11h
Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation
Palgrave Communications 19h 3 tweets
Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation
Eric Topol Here's a creative way to train debunking: an online video game tested in 15,000 people #openaccess Jon Roozenbeek and colleagues 12h
How Artificial Intelligence Can Save Your Life
David Brooks - Nytimes.com 18h 11 tweets
The machines know you better than you know yourself.
Eric Topol "Artificial intelligence is by turns terrifying, overhyped, hard to understand and just plain awesome."— nails it His column today on #healthcare, especially #mentalhealth, and our interview #DeepMedicine 12h
‎EconTalk: Eric Topol on Deep Medicine on Apple Podcasts
Apple Podcasts 25h 1 tweets
‎Show EconTalk, Ep Eric Topol on Deep Medicine - Jun 24, 2019
Effective strategies for rebutting science denialism in public discussions
Nature Human Behaviour 33h 5 tweets
Schmid and Betsch show that countering science denialism as it happens using topic and technique rebuttal reduces the influence of science deniers on attitudes and behaviours.
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Eric Topol Debunking science misinformation has become a formidable challenge and conducted 6 experiments to illuminate effective ways to take this on. Main message: take this on: provide facts, respond to denialism 30h
Microbiota therapy acts via a regulatory T cell MyD88/RORγt pathway to suppress food allergy
Nature Medicine 31h 2 tweets
Bacteriotherapy using gut-derived bacteria from healthy human infants, but not infants with food allergies, suppresses food allergy symptoms in mice via induction of Foxp3 + Rorγt + regulatory T cells
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Eric Topol In other gut #microbiome discovery news today, and investigators identified a pathway associated with food allergy and a bacterial therapy that might protect against them 31h
Eric Topol on Deep Medicine
Econlib 33h 2 tweets
Cardiologist and author Eric Topol talks about his book Deep Medicine with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topol argues that doctors spend too little face-to-face time with patients, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning is a...
Nanopore metagenomics enables rapid clinical diagnosis of bacterial lower respiratory infection
Nature Biotechnology 34h 4 tweets
Nanopore sequencing coupled with a metagenomics framework that effectively removes human DNA from samples enables rapid bacterial LRI diagnosis.
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Eric Topol Rapid metagenomics: sequencing to make the microbial diagnosis of lung infection via sputum in < 6 hrs with very high sensitivity 34h
Meta-omics analysis of elite athletes identifies a performance-enhancing microbe that functions via lactate metabolism
Nature Medicine 35h 12 tweets
A closer look at the gut microbiome of elite marathon runners unveils a microbe-encoded enzymatic process that contributes to enhanced athletic performance.
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Eric Topol Whoa. The gut #microbiome of elite athletes (marathon runners) has a bacterium that enhances performance, makes mice run longer, and this is mediated via lactate metabolism (file under more #microbiome amazing stuff) 35h
Machine learning detection of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using a wearable biosensor
npj Digital Medicine 36h 1 tweets
Machine learning detection of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using a wearable biosensor
Eric Topol The diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is often missed. Using a wearable sensor and #AI (ML of PPG) it can be accurately detected Digital Medicine by and colleagues #openaccess 36h
Could coffee be the secret to fighting obesity?
UoN Press Office - EurekAlert! 37h 1 tweets
Scientists from the University of Nottingham have discovered that drinking a cup of coffee can stimulate 'brown fat', the body's own fat-fighting defenses, which could be the key to tackling obesity and diabetes.
Eric Topol No, but it sure sounds good ;-) (If coffee was the secret for fighting #obesity I think we might have known that by now) 37h
Caffeine exposure induces browning features in adipose tissue in vitro and in vivo
Scientific Reports 37h 1 tweets
Caffeine exposure induces browning features in adipose tissue in vitro and in vivo
Eric Topol No, but it sure sounds good ;-) (If coffee was the secret for fighting #obesity I think we might have known that by now) 37h
What if AI in health care is the next asbestos?
Casey Ross - STAT 7d 20 tweets
“I think of machine learning kind of as asbestos,” one speaker said, explaining that AI in medicine could turn out to be as harmful as it is promising.
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Eric Topol Last week 2 articles highlighted concerns about #AI and #healthcare: 1."It's the next asbestos"— 2. Venue specificity I covered these and many more in #DeepMedicine (Deep Liabilities) 3d
Artificial intelligence could revolutionize medical care. But don’t trust it to read your x-ray just yet
Science | AAAS 8d 5 tweets
Algorithms can underperform when they leave their home hospital
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Eric Topol Last week 2 articles highlighted concerns about #AI and #healthcare: 1."It's the next asbestos"— 2. Venue specificity I covered these and many more in #DeepMedicine (Deep Liabilities) 3d
The Highest-Paid C.E.O.s in 2017
Nytimes.com 397d 3 tweets
Here are 200 of the highest-paid chief executives in American business.
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Eric Topol For some comparables of CEOs of publicly traded companies in the same year FedEx, Ford, Exxon Mobil, Walgreens, Office Depot 3d
Inverse Association Between Cancer and Alzheimer Disease
Jamanetwork.com 3d 1 tweets
The article by Ospina-Romero et al represents an important contribution to the literature on the intriguing inverse association between cancer and neurodegenera
Eric Topol The inverse association between #cancer and #Alzheimers "growing body of evidence" better memory in #cancer survivors? not convinced about this d/t confounders, limitations of the study 3d
Rate of Memory Change Before and After Cancer Diagnosis
Jamanetwork.com 3d 1 tweets
This cohort study compares long-term memory changes before and after incident cancer diagnoses in US adults compared with similarly aged adults without a diagnosis of cancer.
Eric Topol The inverse association between #cancer and #Alzheimers "growing body of evidence" better memory in #cancer survivors? not convinced about this d/t confounders, limitations of the study 3d