Health

Health, not age, driving a rise in pregnancy complications

Rising rates of adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, preterm birth and low birthweight, over the past 10 years are largely attributable to the health status of a person before they get ...

Overweight & Obesity

Excess weight, obesity more deadly than previously believed

Excess weight or obesity boosts risk of death by anywhere from 22% to 91%—significantly more than previously believed—while the mortality risk of being slightly underweight has likely been overestimated, according to ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Research team creates statistical model to predict COVID-19 resistance

Researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University have created and preliminarily tested what they believe may be one of the first models for predicting who has the highest probability of being resistant ...

Radiology & Imaging

Resource-efficient automatic segmentation of medical images

The core benefits of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are weight sharing and that they can automatically detect important visual features. Minh H. Vu and his group found that CNNs are very efficient in automatically segmenting ...

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