Research

Researchers analyzed 1,206 patient cases and found that OR reconstruction cases had a higher median baseline cost of $2,308 compared to $987 for clinic procedures.

Researchers introduce a biomarker to indicate whether someone is struggling with the inflexible thinking associated with the disorder.

Researchers examined if childhood obesity could be prevented by leveraging a combination of health behavior counseling offered by pediatric primary care clinicians and modern digital health literacy tools.

Evaluating how genetic risk interacts with environmental risk factors such as sexual trauma is important for understanding how mental illness develops and identifying high-risk groups for early intervention.

Horvitz, an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, is a pioneer in the applications of machine learning, AI and decision science.

A close cousin of Ebola, the Marburg virus is transmitted by fruit bats and by exposure to body fluids from infected individuals. There currently are no approved treatments or vaccines for MVD, which has a roughly 50% fatality rate.

The study highlights that having a preterm baby often forces parents to consider leaving their job, a decision that typically involves changes to health insurance plans and networks, and resets the annual out-of-pocket costs a worker incurs.