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The Life Equation
Big Data is coming to global health. But who should decide who lives and dies: Doctors on the front...
What if there were an algorithm for saving the most lives? In Guatemala, Crecencia Buch, an impoverished Mayan woman, is battling cancer. Her life depends on decisions made by doctors and donors, decisions increasingly driven by Big Data. It's a scientific, evidence-based approach that cuts through the emotion and promises to optimize health care delivery, transforming the lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world. But what, and who, gets lost in all the number crunching?
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![As part of France's national plan against Lyme, 2,000 "Beware of Ticks" signs will be placed at forest entrances. This one stands across from some vineyards in the northeastern town of Kintzheim. Image by David Scales. France, 2017.](/sites/default/files/08-16-17/img_3495.jpg "As part of France's national plan against Lyme, 2,000 "Beware of Ticks" signs will be placed at forest entrances. This one stands across from some vineyards in the northeastern town of Kintzheim. Image by David Scales. France, 2017.")
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Meet the Journalist: David Scales
Scales traveled to Nancy and Strasbourg to understand how the new French plan to combat Lyme and...
