Artificial intelligence (AI) health-care technologies offer a means of addressing the growing gap between health-care capacity and demand. However, few technologies have met the complex requirements ...

From 2005 to 2023, per capita health care spending was highest and grew most rapidly among Americans in the top income ...

Changing late-life disability and care patterns that may accompany population aging have profound consequences for the nation’s health and related public policies. Drawing on two cross-sectional ...

Analysis of data across many different studies shows that children's word recognition improves continuously from infancy through age 5 years, and shows strong coupling with early vocabulary.

Although auditory encoding of music is robust early in infancy, the transformation of this input into movement patterns develops substantially over the first postnatal year, without reaching full ...

Background A smoke-free society by 2040 is a key target for Dutch municipalities, mandated by law. Smoking remains a public ...

This was the second toughest quarter we’ve ever had in terms of performance vs. the index. We were down a little over 1% for ...

Photos, left to right: Barbara Lorena Vergarargara, Eleganza, MStudioImages and FujiCraft, all via Getty Images. Photo illustration by Pew Research Center. About this research This study looks at ...

Severe scabies, a rare parasitic skin disease characterized by abundant skin mites, may be life-threatening and poses public health concerns worldwide. A combination of standard-dose oral ivermectin ...

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Most people get acquainted with their appendix when it’s inflamed and about to rupture. Sebastian Kaulitzki/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Most people know only two things about the appendix: ...