Algorithm-guided, personalized care for chronic low back pain did not reduce disability compared with usual care among older veterans.

In an ideal world, every visit to the doctor would go something like this: You’d explain what brought you in that day, like some unexplained knee pain. Your physician would listen carefully, run some ...

Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. But that does not mean a computer can’t tell us whether ...

Subcutaneous and retromammary fat surrounds the glandular tissue and constitutes most of the bulk of the breast. 3 Stimulation of breast tissue by hormone fluctuations during the menstrual cycle may ...

MIT scientists have developed an algorithm that can learn to recognize miniscule tics and expressions on the human face to quantify how much pain that person is experiencing, reports Matt Reynolds for ...

At the World Congress on Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, researchers presented a validated predictive model that identified eight key factors for early pain after spine surgery. The findings ...

Heart disease rarely is to blame for chest pain suffered by children, and the ailment can be evaluated cost-effectively in the ambulatory setting, according to a regional study testing an algorithmic ...

Despite a number of obvious limitations to using NNTs derived from different clinical trials, including issues with regard to the inclusion criteria for clinical trials used in this analysis and the ...

In some U.S. emergency departments (EDs), the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 0/1-hour troponin algorithm has shown uniquely poor performance ruling out cardiac events in patients presenting with ...