For decades, the national effort to find and fight inequity in American health care has relied on vast amounts of anonymous medical record data from tens of millions of people.
Mar 12, 2024
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The pandemic put a spotlight on the challenges that health systems face when deciding how to allocate scarce resources during a time of crisis. To better understand differing opinions on this issue, researchers at the David ...
Mar 12, 2024
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Lead is a potent neurotoxin that causes severe health effects such as neurological damage, organ failure and death.
Mar 8, 2024
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Improving the sometimes-devastating birth and post-natal experiences of wāhine Māori in Aotearoa is the aim of a group of University of Otago researchers.
Mar 5, 2024
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Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, which may particularly endanger vulnerable populations such as the elderly. Researchers examined how weather disasters between 2011 and 2016 ...
Feb 29, 2024
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As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in radiology, researchers caution that it's essential to consider the environmental impact of AI tools, according to a focus article published in Radiology.
Feb 27, 2024
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People's trust in the NHS was linked to increased uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic, a study suggests.
Feb 13, 2024
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For decades, thousands of Californians struggling with mental health and addiction have languished on the street. Now, voters will decide whether a March 5 ballot measure is the solution to get them the care they desperately ...
Feb 12, 2024
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The rate of cancer deaths in the U.S. has steadily declined for several decades. But there's a caveat: We've recently seen a small but worrisome increase in the rate of certain cancers—particularly colon cancers—among ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Billions of Canadian tax dollars have been funneled to private companies to develop proprietary medical software. More tax dollars were then paid to the same companies to use the software to run our medical system.
Feb 5, 2024
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