Michael Hochman, MD, MPH, board certified general internist at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, cofounder of Updates in Slow Medicine, and host of the Healthy Skeptic, MD podcast,…
With the aid of single-cell sequencing technology, researchers at Harvard Medical School have mapped the beginnings of the biological development of both zebrafish and frogs from a single-cell…
Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai discusses the opportunities and threats to palliative care in 2015. In moving towards…
The Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE is a competition with a $10 million incentive to drive innovation in the healthcare space, bringing science fiction to reality.
Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai talks about how to reduce the attrition rates among palliative care specialists. According…
John Weinberg, MD, COO, Veloxis Pharmaceuticals describes the challenges of organ transplantation. While advancements in the field have minimized the short-term risks of transplantation, the average kidney transplant only lasts…
Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, Director, Center to Advance Palliative Care, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, expounds on a new medical specialty called palliative care. Palliative…
Grant Campany, Senior Director, Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE, talks about the XPRIZE competition, which is designed to drive innovation in the healthcare space, and bringing science fiction to reality. Through…
Neil Jacobstein, Co-Chair of A.I. and Robotics, Singularity University, discusses the need for medical artificial intelligence to reduce medical errors. As a new generation of doctors begins practice, an…
Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discusses electronic health care. He explains how to make the transition…
Tory Williams, author of Inevitable Collision discusses her new book which chronicles the Geron Trials, focusing on the stories of two patients who participated in the study. The book includes…