Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An increasing number of health care decisions rely on information from algorithms. Tom Werner/Digital Vision via Getty Images ...

Cropped shot of a doctor using a digital tablet in a hospital Biased algorithms in health care can lead to inaccurate diagnoses. Clinicians should decide which variables to include to achieve fair ...

Algorithms were supposed to remake the American justice system. Championed as dispassionate, computer-driven calculations about risk, crime, and recidivism, their deployment in everything from ...

Many physicians are now using algorithms that consider a patient's sex, like heart disease risk assessment tools, to help with clinical decision-making. Reliance on these algorithms may result in men ...

Health practitioners are increasingly concerned that because race is a social construct, and the biological mechanisms of how race affects clinical outcomes are often unknown, including race in ...