Not long after California’s June 15 grand reopening, a celebration of the lifting of most of its COVID-19 restrictions, a substantial uptick in cases prompted […]
Is it possible to predict when a woman will enter menopause?
Despite all the advances in medicine, some basic questions remain. For example, people cannot be told with any certainty how long they’ll live. Nor can […]
Eye tests predict Parkinson’s-linked cognitive decline 18 months ahead
Simple vision tests can predict which people with Parkinson’s disease will develop cognitive impairment and possible dementia 18 months later, according to a new study […]
How blood and wealth can predict future disability
Blood tests for ‘biomarkers’ such as cholesterol and inflammation could predict whether you will be disabled in five years—according to research from the University of […]
Your Blood Type May Predict Your Risk For Severe COVID-19
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 14, 2020 — There’s more evidence that blood type may affect a person’s risk for COVID-19 and severe illness from the disease. The […]
Linking hospital and other records can predict both fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses, study suggests
A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that the odds of a fatal opioid overdose were 1.5 […]
AI can predict when patients will have a heart attack or stroke
World’s first AI can predict when patients will have a heart attack or stroke better than a DOCTOR, study shows Artificial intelligence was tested by […]
Researchers predict 10-year breast cancer recurrence with MRI scans
Diverse diseases like breast cancer can present challenges for clinicians, specifically on a cellular level. While one patient’s tumor may differ from another’s, the cells […]
Tweets from Twitter users could predict loneliness
Loneliness is estimated to affect roughly one in five adults in the United States. It also stands as a public health crisis because loneliness has […]
‘I predict your words’: That is how we understand what others say to us
We are at a fun but noisy party: how can we understand the words someone is saying to us despite the background music and voices? […]
Too much of this in the blood could predict unhealthy aging
A hormone found in the blood that’s commonly linked to heart disease also might signal when someone is more likely to grow weaker or lose […]
Study suggests tumor mutational load may be useful metric to predict response to checkpoint-inhibitor immunotherapy
A large team of researchers affiliated with Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical Center and Columbia University Medical Center has found that the mutational […]
Can you predict your common cold risk?
(HealthDay)—How highly you rate your health could predict how likely you are to catch a cold—and, even more important, how healthy you’ll be in later […]
Age is more than just a number: Machine learning may predict if you’re in for a healthy old age
Doctors have long observed that biological age and chronological age are not always one and the same. A 55-year-old may exhibit many signs of old […]