Adults who had parents who struggled with addiction, intimate partner violence and mental illness are more than 30 times more likely to have been victims of childhood physical abuse than those whose parents did not have these ...
Jun 11, 2019
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Just before the start of Memorial Day weekend, Meg Green meticulously followed online instructions for hacking an insulin pump.
Jun 5, 2019
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This Christmas, many Americans will find the gifts under their tree may lead to a long-lost relative or a map of ancestral migrations.
Dec 21, 2018
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Machine-learning algorithms and artificial intelligence software help organizations analyze large amounts of data to improve decision-making, and these tools are increasingly used in hospitals to guide treatment decisions ...
Dec 5, 2018
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Your personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health data breaches, hospitals, doctors offices and even insurance companies are oftentimes the culprits.
Nov 19, 2018
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Some patients refuse to answer. Many doctors don't ask. As the number of Americans with dementia rises, health professionals are grappling with when and how to pose the question: "Do you have guns at home?"
Oct 19, 2018
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Health plans—entities that cover the costs of medical care—accounted for the greatest number of patient records breached over the past seven years, according to an analysis of U.S. health care data conducted by two Massachusetts ...
Sep 25, 2018
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In an era when for-profit companies collect a wealth of data about us, new research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that data collected by health care companies could—if made available to researchers and public ...
Sep 19, 2018
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While data privacy has been a much-talked about topic lately—with questions still lingering about how giants like Facebook and Google are sharing our personal information—much less has been said about how we are going ...
May 14, 2018
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Helping patients better manage their own health is a crucial goal—both medically and economically—but achieving that goal will require health care technologies that are sensitive to patients' values, researchers at Washington ...
Mar 29, 2018
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