India, Oct. 19 -- A doctor in England turned to artificial intelligence (AI) in a desperate attempt to save his mother after hospital staff warned that she had only hours to live. The technology helped identify a vitamin deficiency linked to her Parkinson's medication, leading to a treatment that stopped her life-threatening seizures.

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Edward Patrick, an NHS anaesthetist from Oxfordshire, told The Sunday Times that his mother, Ann Patrick, was admitted to Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham after suffering continuous seizures that doctors struggled to explain.

The incident unfolded in May when Edward received a teleph...