In remote, rural corners of Malawi, hospitals are often faced with life-and-death decisions. Women in need of emergency caesarean sections, older people with hernias, and children with appendicitis need surgery. But should ...
Apr 18, 2019
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Child malnutrition in Mauritius, and across Sub-Saharan Africa, could be monitored more accurately and quickly, thanks to simple mobile-based data collection forms, according to new research by the University of Warwick, ...
Dec 9, 2019
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Since the onset of the pandemic and the resulting vast amount of complex dynamic data available, health-related dashboards have become ubiquitous as the public, healthcare providers and administrators, and public health and ...
Dec 9, 2021
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New research has revealed for the first time the number of Australian families affected by genetic mutations that cause the rare genetic eye disease Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) – and the risk of going blind ...
Nov 5, 2021
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New global research on child mortality rates in Ethiopia shows while there has been a significant decline in these rates in past three decades, too many children under the age of five are still dying.
Jun 21, 2023
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An automated process based on computer algorithms that can read text from medical examiners' death certificates can substantially speed up data collection of overdose deaths—which in turn can ensure a more rapid public ...
Aug 8, 2022
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Results from a new study suggest that long-term exposure to air pollution leads to increased risk in dementia in Denmark.
May 17, 2024
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It may someday be possible to use Large Language Models (LLM) to automatically read clinical notes in medical records and reliably and efficiently extract relevant information to support patient care or research. But recent ...
Aug 19, 2024
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Since day one of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. has not had enough tests. Faced with this shortage, medical professionals used what tests they had on people with the worst symptoms or whose occupations put them at high ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Better air quality monitoring techniques are needed to assess the acute impacts of pollution on people with asthma, new research by the University of Stirling has found.
Oct 23, 2023
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