by Alfred Poor | March 3, 2017 | General News, Health
Critics who find fault with current society often lay the blame on smartphones and social media channels. It’s hard to argue that these technologies have reshaped individual and communal behaviors, often in was that are not improvements. However, like most...
by Bruce Brown | September 14, 2016 | General News, Health
From the battlefield to the playing field, head impact injuries can be difficult to assess quickly. Headed by neurosurgeon and director of the Stanford Medical Concussion and Brain Health Center, Dr. Jamshid Ghajar, MD, PhD, SyncThink has developed a mobile assessment...
by Alfred Poor | September 6, 2016 | Health, Medical
As our population ages, our society faces the challenges of how to support and care for our older citizens. For many good reasons — not the least of which are saving on healthcare and other costs — seniors want to live independently in their own homes as...
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 | 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...