by Alfred Poor | October 11, 2016 | General News, Health
Parkinson’s is a chronic and progressive disease of the brain that leads to tremors and other muscle control difficulties, and eventually can result in severe disability and dementia. While there is no cure yet, healthcare professionals can use medications to...
by Alfred Poor | October 3, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
Technology development is expensive, and there are no guarantees that a company will be a financial success. Still, money continues to flood into the digital health industry, according to a new report from Rock Health, a venture capital fund dedicated to encourage...
by Alfred Poor | September 6, 2016 | Health, Medical
As our population ages, our society faces the challenges of how to support and care for our older citizens. For many good reasons — not the least of which are saving on healthcare and other costs — seniors want to live independently in their own homes as...
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by Alfred Poor | May 30, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
We live in a time of medical miracles, not the least of which is the ability to peek inside DNA to sequence the genetic material, unlocking mysteries of disease and how the body operates. This information helps researchers and healthcare workers identify different...
by Bruce Brown | May 9, 2016 | General News, Health
There’s a new ELIZA in town, and she’s more proactive than the original. In the 1960s, Joseph Weizenbaum of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory wrote a program that reacted to typed input as a Rogerian therapist would. The big test in artificial...
