As artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT find their way into everyday use, physicians will start to see these tools incorporated into their clinical practice to help them make important decisions on diagnosis and treatment ...
Aug 7, 2023
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Patient-reported outcome (PRO) data are collected in oncology trials to determine patients' perspectives of cancer treatment—unfortunately often too briefly, for example only up to the point when an X-ray shows tumor growth ...
Aug 4, 2023
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Two new studies published by The BMJ today examine the potential health risks for infants of giving steroid drugs to women who are at risk of giving birth early.
Aug 2, 2023
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Black M.D.-Ph.D. students are 83% more likely than white students to leave medical school and 50% more likely to graduate with only an M.D., according to a new Yale-led study. The findings, researchers say, have implications ...
Jul 31, 2023
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Wearable devices like smartwatches continually track physical activity, urging folks to take more daily steps for their health.
Jul 30, 2023
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Increasingly, mental health practitioners like Karen Magruder of The University of Texas at Arlington are seeing a phenomenon in their clinical settings that isn't well-described in the research literature.
Jul 25, 2023
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More than 14,490 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2023, according to the National Brain Tumor Society, and 10,000 people in the U.S. will die of the disease. The five-year survival rate is 6.9%, and ...
Jul 22, 2023
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During 2012 to 2021, 251 cases of soft tick relapsing fever (STRF), caused by certain Borrelia spirochetes and transmitted to humans by soft-bodied Ornithodoros ticks, were reported in 11 states, according to research published ...
Jul 21, 2023
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In the next 20 years, there will be a substantial global rise in multimorbidities, with consequences for patients, caregivers, health care systems and society. Addressing this challenge requires a shift in the prevailing ...
Jul 19, 2023
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Black Americans are 1.6 times more likely to believe medical information presented by a Black physician or patient compared with information presented by a white speaker, a new study shows. This finding, the authors say, ...
Jul 19, 2023
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