Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-220) index.
Contents:
The narrative frays for Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes / Why was this 3-year-old so irritable, and what was wrong with her eye? / James B. Stewart. Artificial intelligence's 'Black box' is nothing to fear / Vijay Pande -- 'Smart thermometers' track flu season in real time / Donald G. McNeil, Jr. -- Researchers try GRINDR app to give out H.I.V. self-testing kits / Donald G. McNeil, Jr. -- Using the web or an app instead of seeing a doctor? Caution is advised / Austin Frakt -- The challenge of doctor-patient relations in the internet age / Doris Iarovici, M.D. -- High-tech treatments. The robot that performed my kidney transplant declined to be interviewed / Tiff Fehr -- This tiny robot walks, crawls, jumps and swims. But it is not alive / James Gorman -- A new way for therapists to get inside heads : virtual reality / Cade Metz -- New gene treatment effective for some leukemia patients / Denise Grady -- In a first, gene therapy halts a fatal brain disease / Gina Kolata -- Gene therapy hits a peculiar roadblock : a virus shortage / Gina Kolata -- Human gene editing receives science panel's support / Amy Harmon -- Apple, in sign of health ambitions, adds medical records feature for iPhone / Natasha Singer -- How to make A.I. that's good for people / Fei-Fei Li -- Artificial patients, real learning / Karen Weintraub -- Yes, medicine can use virtual reality, emphasis on reality / Abigail Zuger, M.D. -- Are hospitals becoming obsolete? Ezekiel J. Emanuel -- Many drugs and many doctors lead to many mistakes / Theresa Brown -- Wellness : is there an app for that? -- We're more honest with our phones than with our doctors / Jenna Wortham -- Can Sweatcoin, a hot fitness app, keep you off the couch? / Natasha Singer -- Finding a more inclusive vision of fitness in our feeds / Jenna Wortham -- A snooze-worthy app collection to add to the smartphone / Kit Eaton -- Sleep is the new status symbol / Penelope Green -- The insomnia machine / Pagan Kennedy -- Glasses are cool. Why aren't hearing aids? / Jennifer Finney Boylan -- Designing for access / Allison Arieff -- The first step toward a personal memory maker? / Benedict Carey -- A family memoir makes the case that autism is different, not less / Ron Suskind -- Am I going blind? / Frank Bruni -- Outing death / Ruth La Ferla -- Mushroom suits, biodegradable urns and death's green frontier / Katie Rogers -- Catherine Wolf, 70, dies ; studied how people and computers interact / Richard Sandomir -- Defying death. Computer-brain interfaces making big leaps / Nick Bilton -- Brain implant eases communication by late-stage A.L.S. patient / Steph Yin -- Swimming with a brand new leg / Catherine Saint Louis -- Last wish of dying girl, 14, to be frozen, is granted by Judge / Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura -- The men who want to live forever / Dara Horn -- Will you ever be able to upload your brain? / Kenneth D. Miller -- The neuroscience of immortality : mileposts on a long and uncharted road / Amy Harmon -- The risks of high-tech health care. Blame technology, not longer life spans, for health spending increases / Austin Frakt -- How companies scour our digital lives for clues to our health / Natasha Singer -- How big tech is going after your health care / Natasha Singer -- Amazon wants to disrupt health care in America. In China, tech giants already have / Sui-Lee Wee and Paul Mozur -- Dr. Alexa, I've been sneezing and my throat is sore' / Tiffany Hsu -- Theranos's fraud tested the limits of the disruption tale / by The New York Times -- The narrative frays for Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes / James B. Stewart.
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