Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Tuberculosis to be tackled using crowd-sourced computer power

The University of Nottingham is launching a new study to address tuberculosis (TB), one of the world's most deadly diseases, supported by IBM's World Community Grid—one of the most powerful and fastest virtual supercomputers ...

Medical research

Fighting malaria with the help of personal computing power

UCD researchers, Dr Anthony Chubb and PhD student Kevin O'Brien, working with Conway Fellow, Professor Denis Shields in the Complex Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL) are harnessing the donated computational power of personal ...

Oncology & Cancer

10-year study of cancer in children shows promising ways forward

Though survival rates for children diagnosed with cancer are improving, not all children respond to current medical treatments. Cancers in children, adolescents and young adults can be resistant to medical treatments or recur ...

Medical economics

What the health care sector was selling at the J.P. Morgan confab

Every year, thousands of bankers, venture capitalists, private equity investors, and other moneybags flock to San Francisco's Union Square to pursue deals. Scores of security guards keep the homeless, the snoops, and the ...

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