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 large-scale, open data resource from the Perelman School of Medicine and collaborators helps researchers link brain ...

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 ...

Most databases are controlled by their owners. Medicine is currently in a non-stop arms race among HMOs, insurers, and hospitals, with each hoping to control medical decisions through their control of ...

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 ...

A range of government agencies, coordinated by the national coordinator of health information technology, is piecing together medical records of Gulf Coast residents by working with electronic records ...

Hackers have raided databases containing millions of medical test lab patients’ personal and payment information, making off with at least hundreds of thousands of people’s banking details. The ...

A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that the odds of a fatal opioid overdose were 1.5 times higher for individuals with one to two visits to the ...

Over the past several years, the field of medical genetics has continued to expand and is now impacting a broad range of medical care, mainly due to rapid advances in genetic technology and ...