Tuesday 26 February 2019

Machine learning could eliminate unnecessary treatments for children with arthritis

Arthritis is not just an ailment of old age—it can affect children too, causing lifelong pain and disability in its most severe forms. Fortunately, some kids grow out of it. Knowing which patients will develop milder forms of disease could spare them unnecessary treatment and potential medication side effects but currently doctors have no way of predicting disease course or severity.

* This article was originally published here