Over the past decade, much of the U.S. health care industry has begun omitting race when predicting and diagnosing disease, thought of as a way of reducing health disparities and curbing systemic racism in health care.
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More than 25% of adults in the U.K. have two or more long-term health conditions. This increases to 65% for people older than 65 years, and to almost 82% for those aged 85 or older.
Aug 22, 2023
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An estimated one in four older Americans with dementia or mild cognitive impairment lives alone and is at risk of practices like unsafe driving, wandering outside the home, mixing up medications and failing to attend medical ...
Aug 18, 2023
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Advances in early detection and treatment have vastly improved the long-term survival of people diagnosed with cancer.
Aug 16, 2023
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Two in five U.S. adults with or at risk for heart disease use smartphones or tablets to monitor their health, a new Yale study finds. But those at highest risk for heart disease are less likely to use technology to track ...
Aug 16, 2023
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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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An article published in the The Lancet Neurology journal evaluates the risk of recurrence of active disease in older patients with multiple sclerosis after discontinuing disease-modifying therapies.
Jun 23, 2023
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Nearly 10 million Americans are at risk for blindness from diabetic retinopathy, a new study finds.
Jun 19, 2023
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Most of us now use emoji to convey feelings or thoughts, a practice that has become ubiquitous along with the use of smartphones. Could such emoji have use in medical communication?
Jun 13, 2023
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An artificial intelligence (AI) computer program can read physicians' notes to accurately estimate patients' risk of death, length of hospital stay, and other factors important to care. Designed by a team led by researchers ...
Jun 7, 2023
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