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Curing health care with a dose of big data and common sense

  • Written by Marschall Runge, Dean, School of Medicine, University of Michigan
imageDoctors are learning new ways to help patients. From www.shuttertock.com

While commanding four vessels sailing between England and India in 1601, Captain James Lancaster performed one of the great experiments in medical history. Each of the seamen on just one ship – his own, of course – was required to sip three teaspoons of lemon juice...

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