Health Minister Mike Nesbitt has issued a winter message to parents of children and young people, emphasising the importance of using appropriate health services during the busy winter period. The ...

We used SMASS (Swiss Medical Assessment System; in4medicine, Inc) pathfinder, a symptom-checker based on a computerized transparent neural network. Methods: We recruited 2543 patients into this single ...

Remember when checking your symptoms meant flipping through a thick medical book or waiting ages for a doctor’s appointment? Well, things have changed. Now, your phone can do a lot of that heavy ...

Feeling a bit under the weather? It happens to everyone. Sometimes you just want to get a general idea of what might be going on before you decide whether to see a doctor or just rest up. That’s where ...

We’ve all done it: You plug your aches and pains into WebMD’s Symptom Checker, see that it could be either “cancer” or “seasonal allergies,” and promptly close out the window and decide to ignore ...

A little while back, a patient came to see me and said she thought she had sleep apnea. When I asked why, she said she snored. I asked how she knew, and she replied, "My watch told me." She opened an ...

Doctors who dismiss or trivialize patients’ symptoms can cause long-lasting harm, according to a new study. This “medical gaslighting” can not only cause feelings of shame and anger but can also lead ...

Following the Personalized Sleep Schedule, Fitbit today is debuting a new round of Labs that users can preview, with Medical record navigator coming soon. The first “experimental capability” (and ...

1. A new AI-powered triage system was shown to outperform junior clinicians in identifying patients requiring emergency care across multiple clinical scenarios. 2. The model accurately distinguished ...