File under: "Does not inspire confidence." You've just been screened for a rare disease, one that only strikes 1 in 1,000 people. You test positive, your doctor tells you. Your heart drops into your ...

Doctors make the same arithmetic mistakes the rest of us make, but the consequences can be considerably more serious. Researchers tested a group of 28 doctor volunteers using a high-tech patient ...

Medical science is getting more and more like math. There's big data to parse, genes to sequence, neural networks to model. That means doctors and patients will be receiving less advice and more menus ...