Tag: Symptoms
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Nation & World
Tracking progression of disease through internet searches for symptoms
A College senior’s research project has shown a way to more quickly understand the characteristics of emerging diseases, by examining global internet searches for symptoms.
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Nation & World
Intel from an outpatient COVID-19 clinic
A new report by researchers examines the mostly overlooked, yet important, category of patients — those with symptoms concerning enough to seek care, yet not serious enough to need hospital treatment.
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Nation & World
Self-diagnosis on Internet not always good practice
Online symptom checkers can often be wrong in both diagnosis and triage advice, but they still may be useful alternatives to phone triage services and Internet searches.
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Nation & World
A fresh look at mental illness
In a paper published in Neuron, Joshua Buckholtz and co-author Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg identify a biological reason for why many mental disorders share similar symptoms, a situation that makes diagnosis challenging.