What’s your Latino background? You could be infected with Helicobacter Pylori
Here, I talk about a recent scientific paper showing that there is a difference in H. pylori seroprevalence, or frequency of infection, based on Hispanic/Latino cultural background and multiple factors associate with the disease.
What Hispanics think of using AI in healthcare and medicine
AI is creeping into our lives, including medical research and provider care. But, what do Hispanics think of using AI in health and medicine?
A COVID-19 political remedy to worry about
What can we learn about the Ivermectin craze for policy and decision making?
Need a cheap remedy to fight COVID-19?
Here I provide further details on papers that contributed to the Ivermectin hype, giving false hope to both the scientific community and the public, but were ultimately retracted because of unreliable and unsupported data and interpretations.
The truth behind Ivermectin use for COVID-19
What does reliable science tells us about using Ivermectin to combat COVID-19?
Using AI for tumor histology research
Although Hispanics are less likely to suffer from the most common cancers (e.g., lung, breast) than non-Hispanic Whites, they have a higher risk for those less common cancers that are also associated with infectious agents (e.g., liver, cervix).
AI can discriminate against minorities and spread scientific misinformation
Note. This is updated from a previous blog post I published a long time ago in robotic healthcare on November 29,2018 >>> Hello, World! You may remember from the pre-COVID times the use of the new genome editing technique CRISPR-Cas9…
AI in healthcare: for better or for worse?
AI is forecasted to increase the region’s GDP greater than 5% by 2030. The report titled “Seizing the opportunity the future of AI in latin America” has a special focus on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico.
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