In its 2015 report Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines diagnostic error two ways: (1) “The failure to establish an accurate ...

Physicians received unexpected news recently when a small study published in JAMA Network Open found that ChatGPT-4 had outdone us at our own craft: diagnosis, what some have called the physician’s ...

The main feature of civilization is the production, consumption, and accumulation of information in all branches of human activity. All human life, in one way or another, relates to the receipt, ...

A car can be compared to the human body and may need diagnostic tests very often. For humans, when a patient consults a doctor about a symptom, the doctor runs a medical diagnostic test to ascertain ...

This is a guest post by Lance Dodes, M.D. The question of Donald Trump's emotional fitness to serve as President has made psychiatric diagnoses a hot topic in the news these days. This interest has ...

It is difficult to recall a time when doctors and patients had trouble tracking the presence of glucose and other substances in urine and blood. Lack of sufficient measurement tools made it difficult ...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a tool used by healthcare professionals to diagnose, classify, and understand mental health conditions. The DSM standardizes criteria ...

Retail health clinics, often located within pharmacies and large retail stores, have driven conversation about the convenient and accessible care they could provide since their inception in the early ...

About three years ago Anila D’Mello, then a postdoctoral fellow in neuroscientist John Gabrieli’s laboratory at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...