Eric Topol

The digital phenotype of vaccination

Giorgio Quer et al. - To the Editor — Vaccines against COVID-19 have been a remarkable public health success. However, as with all vaccines, immunologic response…

Eric TopolAugust 3, 2022

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt – How nasal vaccines could transform the pandemic

COVID-19 vaccines are no longer blocking infections like they used to. Nasal vaccines could help patch up the holes where the new variants like BA.5…

Eric TopolAugust 1, 2022

Medicine & The Machine Medscape Podcasts

Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?

An AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses research questions…

Eric TopolJuly 27, 2022

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In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt – Why Do Some People Keep Getting COVID?

With BA.5 infecting and reinfecting people around the world, Andy wants to know why some people keep getting COVID while others seemingly never contract the…

Eric TopolJuly 27, 2022

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Operation Nasal Vaccine—Lightning speed to counter COVID-19

Eric J Topol & Akiko Iwasaki - Just 10 months after the initial genome sequencing of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus,…

Eric TopolJuly 21, 2022

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Operation Nasal Vaccine—Lightning speed to counter COVID-19

Just 10 months after the initial genome sequencing of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus, two mRNA vaccines were demonstrated to provide…

Eric TopolJuly 21, 2022

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New COVID variants like BA.5 are dominating us — we can do more to prevent this

It takes a lot for a COVID-19 variant to become dominant throughout most of the world. It has happened only three previous times (Alpha, Delta,…

Eric TopolJuly 12, 2022

Academic Publication

Digitizing heart transplant rejection

Faisal Mahmood & Eric J Topol - For more than four decades, the monitoring of cardiac allograft rejection (CAR) has been achieved by surveillance endomyocardial…

Eric TopolJuly 2, 2022

Medicine & The Machine Medscape Podcasts

Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella

Abraham Verghese talks with Stanford's Dr Linda Geng, who is studying the puzzling and poorly understood postviral phenomenon known as long COVID. Listen to the…

Eric TopolJune 23, 2022

Academic Publication

Smartphone apps in the COVID-19 pandemic

Jay A Pandit et al. - Abstract At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analog tools such as nasopharyngeal swabs for PCR tests were center…

Eric TopolJune 22, 2022

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