More patients are taking home recordings of their doctor visits. But who else could listen?
Tech giants have developed speech recognition and machine learning technologies that allow doctors to automatically transcribe audio recordings.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s painfully eloquent final words
FDR’s health finally gave out after years of carrying the weight of the United States, and ultimately the free world, on his muscular shoulders.
Your trip to the dentist wouldn’t include anesthesia without this doctor
Our collectively aching teeth thank you, Dr. Carl Koller.
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For Karachi’s poorest patients, this hospital makes high-quality care accessible
Jinnah Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, has long served the poorest patients despite, desperate conditions, overwhelming demand, and even falling victim to terrorism. A public-private partnership has helped the government hospital make modern updates to its equipment and care. In cooperation…
Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way to image biomolecules at cold temperatures.
The findings come as health officials confront large and protracted mumps epidemics that have become more common around the country.
Researchers at Harvard University have invented super sticky, medical adhesives inspired by slug mucus.
When Elizabeth Silver's daughter was 6 weeks old, she suffered a serious stroke and spent weeks in the NICU. Confronted with damning statistics, Silver began to see the numbers as one version of a story, with room for interpretation. The…
The cost of two widely used radiology medicines for lung and kidney scans has jumped between 500 percent and 1,800 percent over the last four years.
