What does network theory bring to public health?

Published Date: 08 Mar 2023

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Northwestern Medicine investigators have developed a new imaging approach to more accurately assess blood flow in the spinal cord, a method that could be used to better inform treatment for neurological diseases and injuries, ...

A rare glimpse into the brain activity of a patient with obesity and loss of control eating on tirzepatide, marketed as Mounjaro and Zepbound, revealed that the medication suppresses signaling in the brain's "reward center" ...

Researchers at The Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have developed a new electronic medical records-based tool that should help doctors predict which patients are most at risk of losing a transplanted kidney graft.

Harnessing the muscle of one of the world's fastest supercomputers, researchers have built one of the largest and most detailed biophysically realistic brain simulations of an animal ever.

A new artificial intelligence tool that can create virtual representations of patients and predict individual health trajectories has been hailed a potential gamechanger for the clinical trial sector.

A health care chatbot can be a patient's first point of contact for some sensitive conversations from mental health to billing, a new CU Anschutz study has found.

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