How do we really know a patient's level of pain? Today, doctors ask patients to rate their own pain on a scale, relying heavily on what patients say to make their diagnoses. Stanford researchers are ...

Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer, with some 5.4 million cases in the United States each year, and it’s also the most treatable as long as it is detected in the early stages. However, not ...

Building on the key tenets of precision medicine, Stanford Medical School believes algorithms will transform healthcare into an industry that is more predictive than reactive. In fact, the school is ...

When doctors believe a drug's side effects are behind a patient's aches and pains, they can report their suspicion to the FDA. But it can be hard to know whether those adverse symptoms are really drug ...

A group of Stanford researchers says it has built an algorithm that can diagnose pneumonia in chest x-rays better than the average human radiologists. The group, which includes deep learning ...

A team of researchers from Stanford University developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that diagnoses pneumonia from chest X-rays, the California-based university announced Nov. 15. The ...

STANFORD, Calif. — Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an innovative mathematical technique to find markers that effectively predict how deadly a cancer will be. The ...

Stanford (Calif.) Medicine researchers created an algorithm that uses artificial intelligence to sift through EHR data for implantable medical device surveillance, according to the medical school’s ...

(TNS) - Dec. 24—To choose who would be first in line for a coronavirus vaccine, UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco gathered a group of brainy people this fall to study guidelines and prioritize ...

Stanford created its own software system to prioritize which health care workers get the COVID-19 vaccine, but excluded residents working directly with patients. To deal with the massive logistical ...

Researchers at Stanford have developed a machine learning algorithm, CheXNet, to perform pneumonia diagnosis better than doctors. According to the World Health Organization, two-thirds of the world ...