Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Smartphone app can effectively lower cholera risk

The seventh cholera pandemic, which began in 1961, has annually afflicted millions and claimed tens of thousands of lives. Recognized by the World Health Organization as the longest-lasting pandemic in history, cholera spreads ...

Cardiology

A new tool to reclassify heart risk and reduce heart attacks

They sit in the middle—the intermediate zone—where they are considered neither low nor high risk for having a heart attack or stroke. But heart disease may well be within striking distance, so how can we more accurately ...

Surgery

AI-based surgical prediction models have limits

Prediction models generated by machine learning are being increasingly used in medicine to identify risk factors and possible outcomes, especially for total joint replacements of knees and hips—although researchers warn ...

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