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Treating Skin Cancer in West Texas: A Teledermatology Story

GlobalMed

Nearly 20 Americans die from melanoma every day. That’s a dire statistic and a frustrating one, given that the five-year survival rate for people whose melanoma is detected and treated early is 99 percent. As Grinie said, “People were dying of melanoma just from lack of education. New Options for Treatment. Many were not.

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Why Health apps are like the Wild West, with Apple just riding into town

Lloyd Price

Perhaps because melanoma rates have been rising for decades and it’s one of the most common young adult cancers, the largest group of articles we found focused on dermatology apps. If that title suggests a certain lack of objectivity, the problem isn’t limited to dermatology. There are hundreds of cancer-related apps.

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Telemedicine in the Golden Hour: Saving Neonatal Lives

GlobalMed

A soldier wounded in the field, an elderly man with mobility challenges or a melanoma patient in a rural town hours from a dermatology clinic : these are the usual faces of virtual health. When people think of a typical telemedicine scenario, they often picture a patient who can’t get to a hospital.