University College Hospital in London created an algorithm using records from 22,000 appointments for MRI scans, allowing it to identify 90% of those patients who would turn out to be no-shows
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Algorithm helps medical offices to schedule reminders and fill vacant appointment slots with patients who urgently need to be seen
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In this vast border region, tuberculosis control is a high-stakes game of chase. Some patients infected with the disease frequently cross into Mexico for work or to visit family, slipping off the radar of public health workers who must verify they are taking their medicines
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The National Science Foundation says institutions it supports must disclose when researchers are found to have violated policies or are put on leave pending investigation
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Researchers are working on a new way to deliver anti-HIV drugs. A six-pointed device folds up to fit inside a capsule. One swallowed, the capsule dissolves and the device opens up and slowly dispenses the medication
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First Digital Pill Approved to Worries About Biomedical ‘Big Brother’November 14, 2017 |
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill — a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and when, patients take their medicine
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Fitness Trackers Might Help Us Live LongerNovember 2, 2016 |
if only we could be motivated to use them. Those are the conclusions of two new studies about the promise and perils of relying on fitness trackers to measure and guide how we move
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A study published in Cell Biology on Feb. 18, titled “Coercion changes the sense of agency in the human brain,” suggests that this excuse isn’t just a pretext. People who’ve been ordered to do something bad to other people appear to genuinely experience a reduced sense of responsibility
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