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AI and Breast Cancer
Machine intelligence takes a big step into the clinic, with a technology that helps identify patients with an elevated risk of breast cancer. In 2014, Regina Barzilay learned that she had breast cancer. As a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,...
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Make Home Cooking a Habit — It’s good for you
Physician-chef Rani Polak explains why clinicians should learn cooking skills—and teach them to patients. Midway through medical school in Jerusalem, Rani Polak had doubts about his chosen path. He decided to quit and pursue a different passion, cooking, at Le Cordon Bleu academy in Sydney....
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Measuring Blood with Light
Some components of blood can be measured without a needle stick. Now an innovation in light-based methods could make even more of them visible. For about 40 years, physicians have been able to measure some qualities of blood using pulses of light. A recent breakthrough...
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