What is binary logistic regression?

Binary logistic regression is a logistic regression that applies to binary (0,1) variables (e.g. live or die, fail or pass...). Binary logistic regression is used to predict and model 0,1 problems in medicine, BI and many more fields. The reason logistic regression is preferred by many researchers is that it allows one to see the effect every variable has on the model in contrast to black boxed models such as neural networks.