A well-designed system could help us understand better what we don’t know as well as what we do.

I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.

If you’re thinking about bringing a chilled drink to an interview, recruiters and career coaches have some advice.

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Low-impact workouts are testing the strength of men accustomed to bench-presses and burpees. I gave them a try. It didn’t go well.

Imagine screening 10,000 apparently healthy people for a disease that affects one person in a thousand. Let’s further assume the test is fairly good: 99% sensitive and 99% specific. (In case it’s been...

The Great Technology Plan for Wellness, to simplify only slightly, envisions a path to health that runs through data: collect more (through wearables and blood tests), analyze with AI, and deliver per...

A small number of people are shaping what chatbots value. Those choices are already influencing how people think.

The 20th-century advance in American pharmaceutical science was driven by a cohort of devoted researchers working with ambitious drug companies.

The 20th-century advance in American pharmaceutical science was driven by a cohort of devoted researchers working with ambitious drug companies.

Podcast Episode · Approved · September 18 · 3h 37m

The 20th-century advance in American pharmaceutical science was driven by a cohort of devoted researchers working with ambitious drug companies.

In this edition of STAT's AI Prognosis: A conversation with Insitro CEO Daphne Koller on artificial intelligence in drug discovery, and other health AI news.

Rhetoric is no substitute for results.

Podcast Episode · The Long Run with Luke Timmerman · September 9 · 1h 36m

Biologist and Professor at UC Davis.

Keep your mind sharp by making The Crossword part of your daily routine.

It’s not just your kids who aspire to become influencers. Attracting attention –- often through provocative content delivered through social media at high volume –- can seem increasingly like a busine...

It’s not just your kids who aspire to become influencers. Attracting attention –- often through provocative content delivered through social media at high volume –- can seem increasingly like a busine...

Osaka’s serve maxed out at 122 mph, but her hardest serve of the day undoubtedly was her match look.

Weight-loss drugs have become inescapable. Now people are being judged for taking them — or pressured to explain why they aren’t.

Treating the Federal Communications Commission like his own personal enforcer, President Donald Trump said on social media Sunday that NBC’s Kristen Welker would be “reported to the FCC for rebuke or ...