medicine

How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Pick the Best Depression Treatments for You

The use of AI in psychiatry is expanding quickly

AI Can Now Make Medical Predictions From Raw Data. But Can Deep Learning Be Trusted?

The stakes sit particularly high in medicine, where lives are on the line

Kidney Swaps Are Revolutionizing a Broken Organ-Donation System in the U.S.

2017 ended as a banner year for my family, but things didn’t look great at ...

2017 ended as a banner year for my family, but things didn’t look great at the start. A death sentence met us in a boxing ring, and we had to school ourselves on fighting to...

An electrocardiogram showing heart disease

Heart Failure Is Killing More Americans. Can the Health Care System Keep Up?

An aging population means more heart problems

Harassment and Discrimination Are Leading to Burnout Among Female Doctors, Study Says

Mistreatment is widespread for female doctors

Human Health Is in the Hands of Bacteria

In the beginning, there were single-cell bacteria. They were the only life ...

In the beginning, there were single-cell bacteria. They were the only life on earth for billions of years, then larger cells evolved, then multicellular organisms, and then plants and animals. But the bacteria never went...

Why It's Time to Take Electrified Medicine Seriously

When the disease plaguing her digestive system was at its worst, Kelly Owen...

When the disease plaguing her digestive system was at its worst, Kelly Owens once had to rush to the bathroom 17 separate times in the course of a few hours. By the time she was...