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Radiologists are beginning to use AI-based computer vision models to help speed up the laborious process of parsing medical scans. However, these models require large amounts of carefully labeled training data to achieve consistent and accurate results, meaning radiologists must still dedicate significant time to annotating medical images.

Medical researchers left to compile national data by hand, contraceptive guidelines deemed essential by doctors erased, and the nation’s largest tuberculosis outbreak left unreported: President Donald Trump’s administration has thrown the US health system into uncharted territory.

Shoulder symptoms led to an average of 9.6 million physician visits in 2015 and 2016 in the United States. The most common cause of those shoulder symptoms? Rotator-cuff disorders.

An international team, co-led by Adriana Sánchez-Danés, principal investigator of the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Lab at the Champalimaud Foundation, in Lisbon, has shown for the first time the important role of Survivin—a protein that has key roles in regulating cell division and inhibiting apoptosis (programmed cell death)—in the initiation and formation of a basal cell carcinoma, the most common human skin cancer. Their results have now been published in Cancer Discovery.

Two major new studies from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reveal that veterans of the Vietnam War continue to face significant psychological and physical health challenges decades after their combat experience. The research, one of the longest observational studies of Vietnam veterans to date, finds that PTSD and combat exposure are strongly linked to cardiovascular disease and chronic illnesses, as well as ongoing psychological distress, with effects persisting up to 50 years after their service.

People who meditate have unexpected or difficult experiences more commonly than previously thought, a new study has found, highlighting the need for a more nuanced understanding of meditation’s effects.

In medicine, the first step is an accurate diagnosis. Yet many conditions, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), require physicians to rely on more subjective criteria such as observation of symptoms or behaviors. This opens the door for cognitive biases and external factors to influence medical assessments.

The way you see nutrition labels on food packaging is about to change. By 2025, new front-of-package labels will start appearing on grocery store shelves, and by January 2026, they’ll be mandatory.

Technology is available to assist with nearly every facet of modern life, including helping to prevent people with dementia from wandering and alerting their caregivers when they do.

You likely know about the health risks associated with smoking, probably even secondhand smoke, but have you heard of thirdhand smoke? The threat of thirdhand smoke is very similar to that of secondhand smoke, with increased risk of heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease and lung cancer.