by Bruce Brown | November 5, 2018 | General News, Medical
Almost one-quarter of a million new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in 2015, the last year for which the CDC has data. In that year 41,523 women died of breast cancer in the U.S. The CDC states that for every 100,000 women, 125 new breast cancer cases were...
by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2018 | General News, Medical
The escalating potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to wring out new diagnostic tools and uncover heretofore undiscovered relationships and causal factors from big data is exciting, heady stuff. Precisely because the oceans of data from galaxies of sensors can...
by Bruce Brown | July 4, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Artificial intelligence’s greatest potential for enriching medical knowledge and improving global healthcare systems arises from its ability to find useful insights inside big data sets. With access to de-personalized electronic health records (EHRs) of patients...
by Bruce Brown | June 8, 2018 | General News, Medical
Melanoma rates have increased for the past 30 years, according to the American Cancer Society. Skin cancer is now the most common of all cancers. While only about 1% of skin cancers are melanomas, the deadly tumors cause the large majority of deaths from skin cancer....
by Bruce Brown | April 25, 2018 | General News, Health
Healthy longevity is more than a buzzword. Living to an exceptionally old age has little appeal if the final decades are spent in illness, pain, and isolation. The CDC’s Healthy Aging Portal is replete with data, reports, and additional resources on the subject....
