by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2018 | General News, Health
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network reported good news last year: the 5-year survival rate for patients diagnosed with the disease increased from 6% to 9%. Because pancreatic cancer is asymptomatic in early stages, most cases metastasize before diagnosis. In the same...
by Kimberly Houston | December 6, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
What if you could know well in advance about health challenges you or your loved ones may face, in time to mitigate or even conquer them? Think about facial recognition technology for a moment; it can correctly identify a single person out of millions. This same kind...
by Kimberly Houston | November 28, 2017 | General News, Health
January is right around the corner, and that means a lot of people will be setting fitness, weight loss, and other health goals. It’s no secret that we need regular exercise to be healthier and feel better; the problem is finding the motivation to commit to an active...
by Bruce Brown | October 25, 2017 | General News, Medical
We’ve written extensively about telemedicine. We’ve covered applications as diverse as using drones to deliver telemedicine capabilities to disaster locations and telemedicine for ships’ crew at sea. We covered a report on telemedicine’s...
by Bruce Brown | October 17, 2017 | General News, Health
You may not smoke. Perhaps you never were a smoker or quit years ago. Many of your friends and family members who used to smoke may have quit also. I had my last cigarette January 20, 1991… and I do count the days because they represent freedom from a toxic...