A modified Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study risk calculator with OCT data may be more valuable than the traditional calculator. Further modifications may improve the calculator’s diagnostic ...

If current guidelines for cholesterol and high blood pressure treatment remain unchanged, a newly unveiled heart risk calculator would render 16 million people ineligible for preventive therapy. Loss ...

Heart disease cases have skyrocketed across the globe. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 19.8 million people died from cardiovascular disease (CVDs) in 2022, which is 32% of all global ...

Leading American poverty researcher Mark Robert Rank joins the Utterly Moderate Podcast to discuss his Poverty Risk Calculator, the record-low poverty rates that the U.S. saw in 2021, Dr. Rank’s ...

Individuals can use the online calculator to estimate their risk of dying from COVID-19 if they become infected with the coronavirus. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ...

WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...

The latest American Heart Association (AHA) calculator for assessing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk performs well in patients with high and low lipoprotein(a) levels, a new ...

For busy primary care physicians like me, an annual physical with a 27-year-old male is a blessing. Since we’re always running late, a quick visit with a young healthy adult offers the rare chance to ...

Dropping the current calculator for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk assessment—the pooled cohort equations (PCEs)—and adopting the American Heart Association’s PREVENT calculator ...

Earlier this month, Olivia Munn revealed in an Instagram post that the same test that led her to discover her high breast cancer risk has also saved her mom's life. Despite a normal mammogram, her mom ...

Researchers have built and validated an online calculator that empowers individuals 55 and over to better understand the health of their brain and how they can reduce their risk of being diagnosed ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have developed a new online calculator for estimating individual and community-level risk of dying from COVID-19. The web tool ...