Adding a lookup step makes AI better at assigning medical diagnosis codes

A large-scale study by the University of Bath of more than 17,000 primary school pupils and 2,300 teachers across England has revealed dramatic differences in levels of physical activity in children during the school day, despite all schools following the same national curriculum.

"There's no downside to avoiding Tylenol or acetaminophen use while pregnant," President Donald Trump on Sept. 22, 2025, in a press conference.

Neuroinflammation is linked to a host of detrimental brain disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. A collaborative research team from Houston Methodist and Rice University has developed a way to fight back with a tiny, bioengineered system to deliver anti-inflammatory proteins to specific targets in the brain.

Health care workers in emergency departments (EDs) face frequent violence from agitated patients, according to a study published in Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM).

This week, the Trump administration announced that it was taking "bold action" to address the "epidemic" of autism spectrum disorder—starting with a new safety label on Tylenol and other acetaminophen products that suggests a link to autism. The scientific evidence for doing so is weak, researchers said.

Annotating regions of interest in medical images, a process known as segmentation, is often one of the first steps clinical researchers take when running a new study involving biomedical images.

A palliative care educational app improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL) at two months among adult patients with incurable cancer, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome (Crnic Institute) at the University of Colorado Anschutz discovered important differences in the physiological changes observed in over 300 individuals with Down syndrome across the lifespan.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a subcutaneous (SC) induction regimen of Tremfya (guselkumab) for the treatment of adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis.

A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that the overall five-year cancer survival rates for each stage of cancer (localized, regional, distant) were lower in non-metropolitan areas for Black and white individuals in the United States. The results also find that survival rates are lower for Black persons compared to white persons across various cancer types and in several stages and categories of urbanicity, especially for breast and colorectal cancers.

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental health disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking and atypical movement or speech patterns. This psychiatric condition can be highly debilitating, and diagnosed individuals can report markedly different experiences.

Heat and constant exposure to toxic metals and metalloids can be a dangerous combination for the kidneys of agricultural workers, a new University of Arizona study found.

New research from the Arnold School's Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics has found disparities in mortality rates and life expectancy for Americans living with sickle cell disease or cystic fibrosis.

USC researchers have found evidence of threadworm (Strongyloides stercoralis) in South Carolina in two different studies. Their research, which was published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, was led by School of Medicine Columbia's Matthew Haldeman and epidemiology professor Melissa Nolan and was conducted in USC's Institute of Infectious Disease Translational Research.

If presented with two snacks, one containing 7 grams of sugar and another with over 30 grams of sugar, choosing the healthier option should be a no-brainer, correct? Well, maybe not. Less sugar is not automatically healthier.

Sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to new government data posted Wednesday.

Researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a brain imaging technique that reveals how tiny blood vessels in the brain pulse with each heartbeat—changes that may hold clues to aging and diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Scientists at the NYU Pain Research Center have identified which receptor in prostaglandins—the hormone-like substance targeted by common painkillers—causes pain but not inflammation. The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, may help researchers to develop more selective drugs to treat pain with fewer side effects.