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The AP (11/29, Alonso-Zaldivar) reported that the "pursuit of 'personalized medicine' is expected to get a major push from the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama." The President-elect is "interested...

In everyday life, we automatically and effortlessly decode speech into language independently of who speaks. Similarly, we recognize a speaker's voice independently of what he says. Formisano et al from a recent Science paper show that it...

Since starting this blog over a year ago I have relied upon "word of blog" from other physician bloggers (see: New Digital Pathology Blog by Keith Kaplan & The Bits and Bytes of Pathology), other digital pathology blogs...

From Google.org (headed by 2006 TED Prize winner Larry Brilliant) comes this neat data display: Google Flu Trends. The project came about after some Google search engineers wondered if, in communities where more people searched on the term...

Ronald Davis, Health Crusader, Dies at 52 from the New York Times // <![CDATA[ function getSharePasskey() { return &#39;ex=1384232400&amp;en=c442d529317944f6&amp;ei=5124&#39;;} // ]]> // <![CDATA[ function...

It's not often a pathologist gets quoted in the Wall Street Journal but one of my colleagues recently did for a story yesterday with the above title which talks about a wide variety of electronic tracking systems to track everything...