The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
About half of all people don't take medications like they're supposed to.
Of course, the medical profession doesn't like D.I.Y. Anything.
There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
Where today people surf the Web and check their e-mail on their cell phones, tomorrow they will be checking their vital signs.
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.
Our brain starts a long degenerative arc beginning around age 40.
Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.
Warfarin is the drug the medical community loves to hate.
For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.
Medicine is still all about treating populations, not people - one-size-fits all treatments and diagnoses.
The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'
The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.
The problem is that it takes physicians so long to accept a radical change. And the lag is unacceptable.
