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Innovators Encourage Scientists and Physicians to Dive into Technology Commercialization

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When Dr. Tamatha Fenster received a call from a young patient requesting a refill on her Oxycodone for pelvic pain, she was faced with a dilemma: letting the patient remain in pain or refill a prescription and perpetuate an opioid dependency.

With few other pain-relief options, she refilled the prescription. “I had to think of an alternative for pelvic pain for women,” said Dr. Fenster, assistant professor of clinical...

Developing Artificial Intelligence Tools for Health Care

AI in health care

Reinforcement Learning, an artificial intelligence approach, has the potential to guide physicians in designing sequential treatment strategies for better patient outcomes but requires significant improvements before it can be applied in clinical settings, finds a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine and Rockefeller University researchers.

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a class of machine learning algorithms able to make a series of decisions over time. Responsible for recent AI...

Reducing Risk of Opioid Addiction While Alleviating Pain

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Increasing the levels of chemicals naturally produced in the body called endocannabinoids may thwart the highly addictive nature of opioids such as morphine and oxycodone while maintaining the drugs’ ability to relieve pain, according to Weill Cornell Medicine investigators working with researchers from The Center for Youth Mental Health at NewYork-...

Taming Weed

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While most states have legalized or decriminalized marijuana, regulation is limited, and products range in form from leaves to vapes to edibles and can carry far higher concentrations of psychoactive ingredients than were typical decades ago. How can medicine and public health best address these largely unregulated, readily available and potentially harmful products? 

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