by Bruce Brown | October 7, 2016 | General News, Health
Humans need vitamin D for a long list of benefits including healthy bones and even preventing some forms of cancer. Sun exposure remains the best source of vitamin D. Unfortunately, according to the American Cancer Society, too much exposure to the sun can contribute...
by Bruce Brown | May 20, 2016 | General News, Medical
A new method of finding and removing ovarian tumors is in the development and testing stage by researchers from MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital. The problem is that by the time ovarian cancer is diagnosed, it’s often at a...
by Bruce Brown | May 16, 2016 | General News, Health
There are 94 million Americans at risk for lung cancer in the U.S., but only 1.6 million are scanned annually, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics cited by a team of Harvard and MIT students. The team formed a startup called...
by Alfred Poor | April 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
According to the site Statista, nearly nearly four out five people in the U.S. have at profile on at least on social network. Unfortunately, it stands to reason that more than a few of these millions of people are sick with one illness or another. In many cases,...
by Alfred Poor | March 22, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
About one in eight women in the U.S. will develop breast cancer during her lifetime, according to Breastcancer.org. Death rates from the disease have been declining in the past decade, partly due to earlier detection and better treatments. One of the keys to a...