Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Predicting disease outbreaks using social media

Vaccination rates are falling in many communities due to widespread misinformation and previously eliminated or controlled illnesses like measles are surging across the United States and Canada.

Surgery

New tool predicts graft failure after kidney transplant

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have developed a new electronic medical records-based tool that should help doctors predict which patients are most at risk of losing a transplanted kidney graft.

Gerontology & Geriatrics

Why aging shouldn't be classified as a disease

In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released the 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases—a global, standard-setting guideline for how institutions should understand and organize health information. ...

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