{"id":234295,"date":"2026-06-20T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/18-children-had-illnesses-so-rare-doctors-were-stumped-ai-gave-them-answers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T19:20:53","slug":"18-children-had-illnesses-so-rare-doctors-were-stumped-ai-gave-them-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/18-children-had-illnesses-so-rare-doctors-were-stumped-ai-gave-them-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"18 children had illnesses so rare doctors were stumped. AI gave them answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/18-children-had-illnesses-rare-124601547.html\">18 children had illnesses so rare doctors were stumped. AI gave them answers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/18-children-had-illnesses-rare-124601547.html\">https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/18-children-had-illnesses-rare-124601547.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-20 08:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"ca.news.yahoo.com\">ca.news.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AI Diagnosis Success<\/strong>: AI helped diagnose 18 children at Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital whose rare illnesses had eluded doctors for years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Diagnoses Identification<\/strong>: Among the 376 DNA samples analyzed, the AI model identified nearly 5% of new diagnoses, including rare neurodevelopmental diseases and neuromuscular disorders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rare Disease Expertise<\/strong>: The study highlights the work of the Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, which aims to understand the causes of rare diseases affecting 30 million people in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time-Consuming Process<\/strong>: Identifying rare disease diagnoses is a lengthy process, and researchers noted that AI can provide solutions after many patients have been analyzed multiple times without finding an answer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Case Highlights<\/strong>: A notable case involved Kyra Benton, whose debilitating symptoms led to a diagnosis of myofibrillar myopathy after years of misdiagnosis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>AI as a Support Tool<\/strong>: The AI model was used to generate potential diagnoses based on patient information and data, with human researchers validating the final diagnosis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 children had illnesses so rare doctors were stumped. AI gave them answers https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/18-children-had-illnesses-rare-124601547.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/en\/the_independent_635\/240ef544a17e3846de51c2b7d7002f24","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234297,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234295\/revisions\/234297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}