Clinical guidelines greatly influence how doctors care for their patients. By providing recommendations on how to diagnose and treat particular situations, guidelines can help standardize the care ...

You want answers. Most doctors want to give them to you. But the reality is health care is full of uncertainty. Medical tests don’t always provide information. Misdiagnoses happen. Treatments may not ...

For many health care professionals, successfully managing uncertainty means recognizing that surety is complicated and illusory and knowledge is iterative and provisional rather than definitive. One ...

In the aftermath of the COVID pandemic, it’s become a regular assumption that we (meaning scientists, healthcare professionals, and science and health communicators) need to communicate uncertainty ...

The resilience of the human spirit often reveals itself in the most challenging battles. For those living with sickle cell disease, daily life is a series of obstacles that demand unwavering strength.

It has been said that one of the most important lessons physicians acquire in their medical education is how to deal with medical uncertainty. What is certain is that the uncertainty of living with ...

It's been a year since federal immigration authorities re-started what's known as medical deferred action after quietly trying to eliminate it without any public notice. Medical deferrals allow ...

In biomedicine, segmentation involves annotating pixels from an important structure in a medical image, like an organ or cell. Artificial intelligence models can help clinicians by highlighting pixels ...

Jacqueline Chu, M.D., considered the man with a negative coronavirus test on the other end of the phone, and knew, her heart dropping, that the test result was not enough to clear him for work. The ...

Chief Medical Officer at the Los Angeles County + University of Southern California Medical Center, Adjunct Professor of Medicine, University of Southern California I have participated in multiple ...