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A.I. Can Detect Breast Cancer as Well as Humans

June 23, 2016 Alex Kozovski

The day of computers assisting doctors in diagnosing diseases could be here soon. Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) collaborated in ‘training’ artificial intelligence to read and decipher pathology images. Using a ‘method…

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Your (Google) Doctor Will See You Now

June 23, 2016 Alex Kozovski

Good news, hypochondriacs: your go-to source of medical diagnoses – Google – is becoming more efficient. The search engine mogul has announced plans to come up with better answers to health-specific searches. Google says roughly 1% of all internet searches…

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This ‘Second Skin’ Hides Wrinkles

May 12, 2016 Alex Kozovski

Scientists have developed a pseudo-skin that’s placed over the real thing, which reduces the appearance of wrinkles or bags on the eyes. Once the skin is put onto the, uh, skin, the invisible elastic film has a formula that dries…

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How Traveling to the Hospital in this Type of Ambulance Increases Your Chance of Survival

October 27, 2015 Victoria Simpson

Even if you’re a fan of having it all, make sure you don’t take the luxurious route to the hospital. Word has it that when traveling to the hospital with trauma, a stroke, a heart attack and respiratory failure, it’s…