by Alfred Poor | January 4, 2019 | Health, Medical
According to the World Health Organization, more than 300 million people worldwide suffer from depression. 60% of adults with mental illness do not receive any mental health services; social stigma, cost, and access to services all get in the way of receiving...
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...
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by Alfred Poor | September 12, 2018 | General News, Medical
The promise of Big Data is that it will be able to learn quickly from huge data sets and find correlations that might escape the notice of a human analyst. If applied to medical applications, this could lead to faster and more accurate diagnoses, which in turn could...
by Bruce Brown | September 10, 2018 | General News, Health
Urine tests can screen for opioid and other controlled substance use, test for HIV, STDs, kidney function, metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hypertension, urinary tract infections, and general health. When we wrote about a home urine test scanner developed by...
by Bruce Brown | September 5, 2018 | General News, Medical
The subject of intense research for decades, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) still baffles scientists, frustrates parents and teachers, and confuses the general public. Autism was first labeled 110 years ago, but it wasn’t until 1987 that the medical profession...
