Creative use of new mobile and wearable health information and sensing technologies (mHealth)
has the potential to reduce the cost of health care and improve well-being in …

Medication adherence plays an important role in optimizing the outcomes of many treatment
and preventive regimens in chronic illness. Self-report is the most common method for …

PURPOSE An isolated focus on 1 disease at a time is insufficient to generate the scientific
evidence needed to improve the health of persons living with more than 1 chronic condition. …

Advances in machine learning in medical imaging are occurring at a rapid pace in research
laboratories both at academic institutions and in industry. Important artificial intelligence (AI) …

The relationship between adolescent suicide attempts and death by suicide and psychosocial
functioning of peers remains poorly understood, especially in the myriad ways that these …

At this year’s State of the Union address, the President announced a new $215 million
Precision Medicine Initiative in the 2016 budget that will pioneer a new model of patient-…

This study examined how cardiovascular reactivity to human touch is affected by the social
context of the situation. Context for a ten-second touch was manipulated for 61 male and 64 …

Data on health and wellness from around the world reveal a pattern of less than optimal
outcomes for the young and old alike. These results are not limited to the developing world. In …

Objectives : To describe the formation and work of the Health Maintenance Consortium (HMC),
a collaborative of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health to study long-…

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs)?such as heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes,
and chronic lung disease?kill more people globally than infectious diseases and are …