Cause of death often lies buried amid content on crowdfunding platforms, web-based obituaries and memorial websites. With AI assistance, gathering and combining this mortality data with medical records could help power research and public health.

Most people whose brains exhibit Alzheimer's pathology don’t have the disease; they reach the end of their lives never having exhibited cognitive impairment. A new study examines the genetics of this resilience.

SPORE grants are highly sought after because they show that a cancer center demonstrates scientific excellence, promotes collaboration, maintains robust research programs and merits substantial funding.

Waist circumference measurements along with weight and height may be a practical, low-cost marker to confirm excess body fat among children.

Large language models achieved diagnostic rates of 13.3% and 10.0%, compared to the historical clinical review rate of 5.6%, and they suggested next steps to evaluate the suggested diagnoses.

RSV causes substantial seasonal illness during fall and winter in the U.S., with an estimated 100,000-150,000 hospitalizations and 4,000-8,000 deaths.

Investigators measured whether gestational dating determined by ultrasound lagged what the last menstrual period predicted. The bigger the lag, the higher risk of the pregnancy ending in a loss, they found.