Objectives To examine primary care contacts among individuals with eating disorders (EDs) and assess differences across ...

It was mid-October, peak leaf-peeping season in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Chad Markey was on a rare break between clinical rotations during his last year of medical school. He should have been ...

SHENZHEN: Zhao Xiaoyu is at a busy hospital in Guangzhou to meet her client for the day. The 25-year-old is not a nurse or doctor. Instead, she works as a “medical escort”, or “pei zhen shi” in ...

Every year, an algorithm assigns thousands of medical students to residencies they can’t leave, can’t negotiate with, and can’t refuse. The Match system creates a captive workforce that stiffs ...

Many physicians find chatbots threatening, but that doesn’t mean they’re giving up on medicine. Credit...Fabio Consoli Supported by By Gina Kolata When it’s time to have a difficult conversation with ...

SINGAPORE – Many people who start at the tuition-free coding school at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) do not make it even halfway to the end. But Mr Brian Young, 36, and Mr ...

matchingR is an R package which quickly computes the Gale-Shapley algorithm, Irving's algorithm for the stable roommate problem, and the top trading cycle algorithm for large matching markets. The ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Well, back in 1987, two programmers at General Electric did — and they ended up inventing the Marching Cubes ...

Amanda Randles wants to copy your body. If the computer scientist had her way, she’d have enough data — and processing power — to effectively clone you on her computer, run the clock forward, and see ...

Social media apps regularly present teens with algorithmically selected content often described as “for you”, suggesting, by implication, that the curated content is not just “for you” but also “about ...