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onlinelibrary.wiley.com Pediatric Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Is Often Severe But Responsive to Siltuximab Background Idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (iMCD) is a potentially fatal immunologic disorder marked by widespread lymphadenopathy and inflammation. Siltuximab, an interleukin-6 (IL-6)... 
www.nytimes.com Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life. (Gift Article) Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines. Incredible.View quoted post on X
www.nytimes.com Doctors Told Him He Was Going to Die. Then A.I. Saved His Life. (Gift Article) Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines. A 37-year-old man with a rare blood disease was being sent to hospice.
An AI model searched thousands of existing drugs and ranked a combination no one had tried for his condition.
He responded within a week. He is in remission.
The drugs were already on the shelf. The AI model found the match.View quoted post on X
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