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Using Technology to Advance Cancer Survivorship Programs

O ver 12 million people in the United States are surviving after being diagnosed with cancer; this number is expected to rise as baby boomers age and emerging targeted therapies create less toxicity (Ganz, 2009). Yet in a 2012 survey, only 55% of primary care providers (PCPs) were comfortable being the sole provider for cancer patients 2 years after the completion of their therapy 2012). Anothe...

Why Does Technology Advance in Cycles?

Long-run technological progress is cyclical because drastic innovations that introduce new technological opportunity are only profitable at times when repeated incremental innovation has nearly exhausted existing technological opportunity and driven entrepreneurial profit and income growth towards zero. The article presents a ’technological opportunity model’ where endogenous drastic and increm...

Using technology to advance the public's health.

health for all. RIEGELMAN AND PERSILY propose revising the core curriculum in schools of public health to include applied research and technology. The skills they stress are core competencies that are increasingly required of public health practitioners as well as researchers. The concepts Riegelman and Persily present have more than 30 years’ historical support. Their position is further stren...

Using Wearable Technology to Advance Parkinson’s Research

Parkinson’s disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer’s, is estimated to affect one million people in the United States and perhaps as many as seven million globally. There is currently no cure; medications, surgery, and multidisciplinary management can provide relief, but they address only some of the symptoms patients face, and are effective only for a li...