by Alfred Poor | April 13, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The number of deaths in the U.S. due to cancer have declined steadily since the early 1990s, while the number of cancer survivors continues to climb. Innovations in medical treatments have resulted in improved outcomes, though the process is not easy for many...
by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2017 | General News, Health
Modern medicine works miracles. Diseases that used to kill thousands and thousands of people every year have all but disappeared from the planet. Other diseases that used to be a certain death sentence now can be cured, or at least their progress can be slowed. Cancer...
by Alfred Poor | February 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
“We’ll have to wait for the lab results to come back.” Chances are good that if you’ve had any contact with the healthcare system beyond simple wellness checkups, you’ve heard this line before. Perhaps even more than you care to remember....
by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Is it a freckle, a benign cancer, or a malignant time bomb about to go off? Dermatologists train in part by looking at thousands of images of skin abnormalities as one part of their diagnostic training. Doctors use much more than a single image to make their...
by Bruce Brown | November 1, 2016 | General News, Medical
Smartphone spectrometers that can detect cancer biomarkers exist, but previous versions have been inefficient and impractical for use in the field. According to researchers from the Washington State University School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, these...