As psychiatry concedes long-standing criticisms of diagnosis, a deeper question emerges: What now justifies its authority ...

For a long time, it was assumed that somewhere between 5 and 6% of children have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But the rates, in practice, are often higher. The American Centers for ...

As more people turn to artificial intelligence for medical advice, experts are warning the technology may not always provide ...

A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.

Not all patients in the emergency department diagnosed with diabetic ketoacidosis meet laboratory criteria; a study shows that physicians rely on clinical signs and symptoms.

It is no secret that our healthcare system is not fair in how it diagnoses and treats patients of different populations. Yet reading abstract statistics about how identity markers affects one’s ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced, but it's still far from perfect. AI systems can make biased decisions, due to the data they're trained on or the way they're designed, and a new study ...

"Let's see how things go." So psychiatrists often say to one another after a patient has been diagnosed with the first disorder—not because the diagnosis is not correct, but because psychiatrists know ...

The rates of various psychiatric diagnoses as applied to children and adolescents can change quite a bit over time for various reasons. There is much debate about the increased prevalence of diagnoses ...

Researchers say results mark a really ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’ ...