Medical economics

Instead of selling, some rural hospitals band together to survive

Retta Jacobi stepped onto a metal platform that lifted her to an entrance on the side of a custom-designed semitrailer. Once inside, she lay down on a platform that technicians slid into an MRI machine. Jacobi hoped the scan ...

Surgery

AI can predict complications from surgery better than doctors

A new artificial intelligence model found previously undetected signals in routine heart tests that strongly predict which patients will suffer potentially deadly complications after surgery. The model significantly outperformed ...

Overweight & Obesity

Obese surpass undernourished youths for first time, UN warns

Obesity has skyrocketed among children and adolescents bombarded by "unethical" marketing of junk food, outpacing undernourishment to become the leading form of malnutrition worldwide for the first time among those age five ...

Diabetes

Smoking or vaping may increase risk of diabetes

People who use e-cigarettes, cigarettes or both face an increased risk for developing diabetes, according to University of Georgia research published in AJPM Focus.

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