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Will Increasing Prenatal Tests Prevent Stillbirths? 19/07/2021
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In 2018, Kristen Miller, a high school social studies teacher from Cleveland, had an uneventful pregnancy for the first two trimesters – “textbook perfect,” she said. But then at her 32-week prenatal visit, she was told she had excess amniotic fluid, a condition that can slightly increase the risk of complications.
The following morning she went to work but noticed the foetus wasn’t moving much. Feeling something was wrong, she eventually went to the hospital. The attending physician couldn’t find a heartbeat. Miller was told her daughter, whom Miller had named Leighton, would be stillborn.
Computational Medicine - Moving from Uncertainty to Precision
Collaboration between Dell Med, Oden Institute, TACC, industry, government establishes Texas as a leader in computational medicine
Published on February 10, 2021 by Faith Singer-Villalobos
Individual choices in medicine carry a certain amount of uncertainty.
An innovative partnership at The University of Texas at Austin takes aim at medicine down to the individual level by applying state-of-the-art computation to medical care. Medicine in its essence is decision-making under uncertainty, decisions about tests and treatments, said Radek Bukowski, MD, PhD, professor and associate chair of Investigation and Discovery in the Department of Women s Health at Dell Medical School at UT Austin.
Innovative collaboration applies state-of-the-art computation to medical care
Individual choices in medicine carry a certain amount of uncertainty.
An innovative partnership at The University of Texas at Austin takes aim at medicine down to the individual level by applying state-of-the-art computation to medical care. Medicine in its essence is decision-making under uncertainty, decisions about tests and treatments, said Radek Bukowski, MD, PhD, professor and associate chair of Investigation and Discovery in the Department of Women s Health at Dell Medical School at UT Austin.
The human body and the healthcare system are complex systems made of a vast number of intensely interacting elements, he said. In such complex systems, there are many different pathways along which an outcome can occur. Our bodies are robust, but this also makes us very individualized, and the practice of medicine challenging. Everyone is made of different combinations of risk factors and protective cha