Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An increasing number of health care decisions rely on information from algorithms. Tom Werner/Digital Vision via Getty Images ...

Cropped shot of a doctor using a digital tablet in a hospital Biased algorithms in health care can lead to inaccurate diagnoses. Clinicians should decide which variables to include to achieve fair ...

The Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Hematology/Oncology divisions at MUSC have joined forces to create and test an algorithm for treating children with sickle cell disease who present to ...

Society often relies on social algorithms that adapt to human behavior. Yet scientists struggle to generalize the combined behavior of mutually-adapting humans and algorithms. This scientific ...

A large share of donated kidneys are unused due to inefficiencies in the allocation and acceptance process rather than medical unsuitability. Researchers developed a data-driven adaptive algorithm ...

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...