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Tableau 10.2 Brings New Advanced Analytics Capabilities

New release brings advanced mapping capabilities and nearly 50 enhancements make data analytics easier and more scalable for the enterprise Tableau Software today announced the general availability of Tableau 10.2. The new release brings advanced mapping capabilities that make complex geospatial analysis easy, simplifies data prep with new ways to combine and clean data, and gives enterprises more tools to deliver self-service analytics at scale. “The need to see and understand data has never been greater,” said Andrew Beers, Chief Development Officer at Tableau Software.

3 Top Healthcare Stocks to Buy Now

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Second chance at life

Durban – The heartbreaking story of a baby without a brain becoming an organ donor has touched a Durban family, who have endured 19 long years of hoping and waiting for that call about new life. Matthew Legemaate, 19, from Hillcrest, north-west of Durban, spoke out after the Facebook posts this week of US couple, Royce and Keri Young, who made the courageous decision to donate their unborn child’s organs once she was born.

Social Media is Making Americans Stressed

… social online media. They literally cannot get enough of it. This sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder hurts mental health more than some of the worst and most devastating forms of madness. For one thing, it makes one finicky and high-strung. …

Brokers Issue New Targets On Anthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

The company has a 1 Year high price target of $3. A-623 targets elevated levels of B-lymphocyte stimulator, or BLyS , which has been associated with a variety of B-cell mediated autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus , rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Sjogren’s Syndrome, Graves’ Disease and others.

Stanford-bound student faces something unexpected during gap year: mortality

Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events At the U.S. Education Department, student Katherine Du holds up an anthology of teen writing in which her work is published Katherine Du is a 17-year-old who is on a gap year before starting Stanford University this fall. She grew up in London and Connecticut, and attended the private Greenwich Academy.

Facebook nurse could see $30K fine

… “up to speed” on end-of-life care and could use a refresher. Strom, a registered nurse in the Prince Albert Parkland Health Region, often uses social media as a health advocate, but this post was written as a grieving granddaughter. The Macklin …

Scientists create scorecard index for heart-damaging chemo drugs

Joseph Wu and his colleagues used lab-grown heart cells to assess the effect of chemotherapy drugs on heart muscle. Steve Fisch Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine used heart muscle cells made from stem cells to rank commonly used chemotherapy drugs based on their likelihood of causing lasting heart damage in patients.

Omnicell Medication Management Solutions and Interoperability…

Through the single-server Unity enterprise platform and interoperability with leading electronic health record vendors, Omnicell is committed to streamlining clinical workflows while supporting the highest level of medication security and patient safety. Hospitals continue facing countless challenges, including rising drug prices, reimbursement hurdles with value-based care initiatives, and determining how to best utilize “big data” that exists within their health system-all while continuing to make excellent patient care a top priority.i As a result, the healthcare industry is increasingly interested in analytics tools as well as services that can help hospital leaders identify and prioritize areas of inefficiency within their systems.

Radiotherapy Market Research Insights, Intended Audience, Regional…

Synopsis of Radiotherapy Market Market Segmentation: Global Radiotherapy Market has been segmented as follows: -On the basis of Types which comprises of external beam radiation therapy, internal radiation therapy, systemic radiation therapy and others and others -On the basis of End Users which consists of hospitals, clinics, research facilities and others.

Gene therapya s latest benefit: New skin

… Medicine, announced last week. The center, a new joint initiative of Stanford Healthcare, Stanford Children’s Health and the Stanford School of Medicine, is designed to accelerate cellular therapies at the university’s state-of-the-art manufacturing …

Could your smartphone catch skin cancer?

Scientists at Stanford University in the US trained the deep-learning algorithm, developed by Google and known as a neural net, to visually diagnose potential cancers. A study, published in the journal Nature, showed that when tested on nearly 130,000 images, it detected malignant cancers with 91 per cent accuracy.

Islets from rat-grown mouse pancreases can help reverse disease in diabetic mice

Mouse pancreases grown in rats generate functional, insulin-producing cells that can reverse diabetes when transplanted into mice with the disease, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo. The recipient animals required only days of immunosuppressive therapy to prevent rejection of the genetically matched rather than lifelong treatment.

Islets from rat-grown mouse pancreases can help reverse disease in diabetic mice

Mouse pancreases grown in rats generate functional, insulin-producing cells that can reverse diabetes when transplanted into mice with the disease, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo. The recipient animals required only days of immunosuppressive therapy to prevent rejection of the genetically matched rather than lifelong treatment.

NorthBay Healthcare hosts Facebook chat on asthma, allergies

For many parents, understanding how to recognize the symptoms of asthma and allergies and to care for their youngsters who suffer with these conditions is a daily struggle. Childhood asthma and allergies is the focus of discussion when NorthBay Healthcare hosts its next #OurDocTalk, a live Facebook chat with pediatrician Dr. Matthew Heeren.

A song goes viral after Women’s March on Washington

A song by a Los Angeles singer-songwriter that was performed by a flash mob of women in pink, pointy-eared hats at the Women’s March on Washington is being heralded as the anthem of the movement. MILCK , whose real name is Connie Lim, led some two dozen singers Saturday in her song “Quiet,” which is about overcoming physical and sexual abuse.

Breast cancer tattoo photos lead to Facebook expulsion

A woman who aids breast cancer survivors in the St. Louis area by creating tattoos of the nipple and areola after reconstructive surgery has been booted from Facebook for showing examples of her work. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Facebook told Kerry Soraci that the photos she was sharing did not meet “community standards.”