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NFTs have had a meteoric (and somewhat crazy) rise in popularity since they first appeared in 2014. While they are smoking hot right now, many wonder if NFTs will continue to sizzle or if they will eventually fizzle. An NFT is a digital object, which is a bit computer code and data that conveys ownership […]
CRISPR Has the Potential to Snip Out Sickle Cell Disease Sickle cell disease affects about 100,000 people in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and affects millions of people across the globe. A new technology, known as CRISPR, may change all that. CRISPR is short for “clustered regularly interspaced short […]
Wearable Sensors May Help Identify Early Signs of Disease Wearable technologies may be able to do much more than monitor a person’s blood pressure or total number of steps each day, according to a new study, which suggests wearable sensors can detect early signs of serious disease. Wearable biosensors, otherwise known as wearables, are a low-cost […]
1. Cybersecurity The medical and healthcare sector collects highly sensitive patient information, which puts the industry in the crosshairs of cybersecurity attacks. There were 2,546 healthcare data breaches involving more than 500 records in the United States between 2009 and 2018, resulting in the in the exposure and theft of 189,945,874 healthcare records – this […]
2017 Trends: Rising Drug Costs The cost of prescription drugs has been rising rapidly since 2010, and will likely continue to rise in 2017. Frank Magliochetti The largest drug maker in the United States, Pfizer Inc., raised prices on 133 of its U.S. brand name products in 2015. More than three-quarters of the increases were 10 percent […]
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