Anne Miller

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Health firm Populytics tracks and analyzes patient data, and makes care suggestions based on that data.

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Canadian Red Cross's move to a modern ITSM ticketing solution was a vast improvement over email-based support.

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The doctor sketched a rough outline of my reproductive organs and nearby anatomy as she talked. The black lines on white paper seemed so sparse, when in reality they represented our hopes for the future. My husband and I had a healthy, smart, sassy, thriving preschooler; but we wanted another child. And with the relative ease of our first pregnancy — three months of trying followed by a clockwork 40 weeks (and three days) of pregnancy — we assumed the second would come easily.
Instead, ...

You like soft and chewy. He likes thin and crispy. If only there were a way to bake chocolate chip cookies to please everyone.
There is! And, no, it's not Martha Stewart's way. It's science.
We've taken our cues from a few spots: a bioengineering grad student named Kendra Nyberg, who co-taught a class at the University of California, Los Angeles called Science and Food, and chef and cookbook author Tessa Arias, who writes about cookie science on her site, Handle the Heat.
There's also an illu...

Self-driving cars could not safely operate in Manhattan right now for a number of reasons, but one in particular is putting on the brakes: Today’s wireless network can’t support them. It’s annoying for a phone call to drop on a busy city street; it’s downright dangerous for an autonomous car’s system to take more than a second to connect to the algorithms that judge if an oncoming vehicle poses a threat.

Ensuring the safety of self-driving cars is just one way the small but growing 5G network has impacted the city.

I used to think only the rich hired nannies. That stereotype dominates the media, from a recent New York Times Magazine column on high-priced nannies making more than I ever will in a year, to the new ABC Family reality show, Beverly Hills Nannies, set to debut July 11. Then......

The moment the Bonneys realized they could lose their 18-month-old son, Duncan, came when a doctor asked Craig and Stephany Bonney if they wanted directions to the hospital chapel, so they could pray for him.
Their story has a happy ending, but the parents have become almost militant in speaking up about the poison that almost killed their son. Because, while cases remain rare, the toxin exists far more readily than they or their doctors realized.
Duncan ended up in intensive care because he ...