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Amulti-university team that includes University of Texas at Austin researchers has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to create AI-based interventions to help address the risk for suicide among Black youth.The project is in r
A multi-university team that includes University of Texas at Austin researchers has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to create
Published in the journal JAMA Network Open, a new study found that disparities in US COVID death rates between Black and White adults narrowed substantially from the first to the second year of the pandemic, from 339 deaths to 45 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021, after accounting for age. But this sharp decline mostly resulted from an increase in COVID deaths among White people, as well as a geographical shift in mortality from large, urban cities to rural and smaller metropolitan areas, rather than from decreases in deaths among the Black population.
MedCognetics, Inc., an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software firm, announced that it has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) to research unbiased AI for breast cancer detection. The research grant is from the NIH’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity, or AIM-AHEAD program.