Tag: statistics
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Anti-Vaccine Groups More Adept at Facebook Ads
A review of advertisements about vaccinations shows a few groups took advantage of Facebook’s advertising policies to spread vaccine misinformation.
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Safety Reports Analyzed with A.I. to Reduce Medical Errors
Research is underway to write algorithms for analyzing free text and other unstructured data in safety report databases to reduce medical errors.
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Opioids Provide Few Pain Benefits, Yet Abuse Growing
Opioids appear to provide little benefit for patients with pain from osteoarthritis, yet opioid use disorder rates among patients with painful conditions continue to rise.
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Infographic – Q3 A.I. Health Investments Set Record
Venture capital funding for companies worldwide building artificial intelligence solutions in health care set new highs in the third quarter of 2019.
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Infographic – U.S. Rated Best in Pandemic Prep
A new report on global health security says no country in the world is fully prepared to handle pandemics or epidemics, with data from the report displayed in this weekend’s infographic.
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Infographic – Govt Research Funds Fall Behind in U.S.
Funding for research at universities in the U.S. by government agencies is falling behind most other advanced countries, according to a new report.
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Q3 Venture Investing Falls, Biotech Remains Hot
Venture capital investments fell in the third quarter of 2019, both in dollar volumes and number of deals, with declines occurring in the U.S. and worldwide.
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Infographic – Public Down on Industry-Funded Science
While a majority of Americans say they trust research findings that are open to public inspection, about the same number does not trust industry-funded science.
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Infographic – Private R&D Outpacing Defense Contractors
Our infographic this weekend offers a stark illustration of how private companies have surpassed defense contractors in R&D spending.
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Women-Founded Start-Ups Raise More Capital Than Male-Only
Start-up enterprises founded or led by at least one woman on the team raise more capital than comparable start-ups founded by men only.