Which conditions are caused by infection? Though it may seem like an amateur concern in the era of advanced microscopy, some culprits evade conventional methods of detection. Large medical databases ...

A new study from Microsoft researchers warns that many types of databases used for electronic medical records are vulnerable to leaking information despite the use of encryption. The paper, due to be ...

In the back parking lot of a Denver community health center, there’s a blue bus. On it are the words ‘All of Us.’ Inside, a nurse pulls open a Velcro sleeve as she checks the blood pressure of Denver ...

Medical databases are undergoing rapid expansion, with the number of observed values and variable types continuously increasing, resulting in increasingly rich data content. This growth leads to a ...

(Medical Xpress)—A published study conducted by researchers at West Virginia University has found that doctor and pharmacy shoppers are at a greater risk for drug-related death. A team of researchers ...

T. S. Karin Eisinger-Mathason is a cancer biologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, and an external consultant at Datavant in San Francisco, California.

A new medical database automatically compiles the medical records of obese patients and those suffering from obesity-related diseases in a uniquely comprehensive and reliable manner. The initiative, ...

Recent failures of the Drug Safety Surveillance system in the United States and abroad, as evidenced by market withdrawals of commonly used medications, call attention to the many limitations to the ...

As North America recovers from some of the worst air quality in decades due to wildfires, one of the largest and most comprehensive studies into the long-term health impact of smoke exposure raises ...

Duke Health entered a deal with Nference to de-identify troves of patient data and create a database that is easy to analyze. They plan to monetize access to this database. Duke University Health ...

In part one, Bryan Cush, the co-founder of Tidal Health Group, and I spoke about how to use health data for content and search marketing and here we dig into using medical databases, local search and ...