by Bruce Brown | April 3, 2019 | Medical
Chronic diseases threaten the lives of a large portion of the world’s population. Among Americans, 60% have one or more chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and diabetes, according to the CDC. The CDC works with communities to promote health...
by Alfred Poor | June 27, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
If there was a disease that killed nearly 30,000 deaths in 2016, that might get your attention. If this cause of death has increased by about 3% a year since 2007, you might wonder how that could be. Aren’t we supposed to be getting better outcomes from modern...
by Alfred Poor | March 19, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been racking up the wins in health and medical applications these days. From uncovering different forms of diabetes to predicting heart disease from retina scans, machine learning has uncovered all sorts of hidden knowledge that is...
by Kimberly Houston | February 1, 2018 | General News, Medical
A hospital stay usually involves being attached to a host of medical devices. But how useful is all that data, really? The FDA recently approved a new method of analyzing data to reduce preventable hospital deaths, which are estimated to number 400,000 yearly in the...
by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2017 | General News, Medical
Respiratory depression leading to death under sedation remains one of the greatest dangers of anesthesia, 170 years since William Thomas Green Morton demonstrated the controlled use of ether to produce insensitivity to pain Massachusetts’s General Hospital in...
