Awareness of Racial and Ethnic Bias and Potential Solutions to Address Bias With Use of Health Care Algorithms – PubMed

This qualitative study found that participants perceived widespread and increasing use of algorithms in health care and lack of oversight, potentially exacerbating racial and ethnic inequities. Read more: Awareness of Racial and Ethnic Bias and Potential Solutions to Address Bias With Use of Health Care Algorithms – PubMed Post Views:…

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New Insights Into Prevention and Management of Chronic Pain in Children and Adolescents | NCCIH

Chronic pain affects up to 40 percent of children and adolescents worldwide. It can result in negative consequences, including reductions in children’s physical and psychosocial functioning and high health care use. The risk for continued pain and the impact of childhood chronic pain on health and development in adulthood are…

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Brain signatures for chronic pain identified in a small group of individuals | National Institutes of Health (NIH)

For the first time, researchers have recorded pain-related data from inside the brain of individuals with chronic pain disorders caused by stroke or amputation (phantom limb pain). A long sought-after goal has been to understand how pain is represented by brain activity and how to modulate that activity to relieve…

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Racial Bias and Healthcare Algorithms | Virtual Public Meeting

Healthcare algorithms—often based on statistical or mathematical models such as machine learning—offer value in diagnostics and treatments. At the same time, their algorithms can create and perpetuate inequities in health care. Register to join us on May 15 for a virtual presentation on draft guiding principles for preventing or mitigating…

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Courageous Cancer Conversations w/ Guest Ethel Jones

Courageous Cancer Conversations w/ Guest Ethel Jones

Join us for Courageous Cancer Conversations Sunday, November 27th, at 6 pm EST live @OraLeeOrg on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. The Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation has a patient-centric approach to changing the way cancer is treated. Happening on the last Sunday of each month, this series is designed…

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