by Alfred Poor | August 16, 2018 | General News, Medical
“Mind over matter; if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” That is a gross oversimplification of a new approach to patient pain management: hypnosis. Medical hypnosis has long been used as a tool to help patients with pain, stress, and anxiety....
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The promise of Big Data is that if you can aggregate enough information, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can sift through it and find correlations that a human mind might never find in a lifetime of searching. We’ve covered how Google’s AI labs...
by Bruce Brown | January 30, 2018 | General News, Medical
A comprehensive report on healthcare industry security paints a bleak picture. eSentire, a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service provider, found the healthcare industry susceptible to the “most basic opportunistic attacks.” The report outlines...
by Bruce Brown | December 28, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
Well, it’s almost official. Computer and video game addiction is on the verge of recognition as a medical thing. A World Health Organization (WHO) draft document for tracking Mortality and Morbidity Statistics includes gaming disorder. The eleventh edition of...
by Kimberly Houston | December 14, 2017 | General News, Health
When smartphones started omitting the standard 3.5mm headphone jack, there was a bit of an uproar among those who didn’t love the idea of buying a separate adapter to listen to music, podcasts, or other audio with their headphones. Blog posts and online forums filled...