by Bruce Brown | December 7, 2017 | General News, Medical
Telemedicine continues to expand into new opportunities with a variety of applications. We’ve written about telemedical support for first responders, cochlear implant adjustment sessions, hypertension management, headaches, and more. I’ve personally...
by Bruce Brown | October 23, 2017 | General News, Health
Skin cancer — specifically melanoma of the skin — is the most prevalent form of cancer in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Citing the most recent annual statistics, the CDC reports 76,665 people in the U.S. were...
by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Is it a freckle, a benign cancer, or a malignant time bomb about to go off? Dermatologists train in part by looking at thousands of images of skin abnormalities as one part of their diagnostic training. Doctors use much more than a single image to make their...
by Bruce Brown | July 13, 2016 | General News, Health
Summer is upon us full force. For many that means a lot of time outside, preferably at the beach. Our largest organ, our skin, doesn’t do well with too much sun exposure and the “too much” part is pretty fuzzy. Generally, by the time we feel...
by Alfred Poor | September 18, 2014 | Health
People just don’t get as much sunshine as we used to. We work in offices or go to schools, rather than toiling in the fields. And when we do go outside, a healthy concern about skin cancer causes many of us to cover up or lather ourselves with sunscreen. The...