Yes there will be challenges, not the least of which will be cost concerns, but immunotherapy is coming of age in cancer treatment, said experts at the 2015 Forbes Healthcare Summit.

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Three different people who are accused of making racist threats on college campuses faced prosecution this week. One was a homecoming queen. One was a pole vaulter on the track team. And one told the judge that he made a “terrible joke.” Two are black and one is white.

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As Apple advances the medical promise of its watch and smartphones, it has also made clear that it’s foremost aim is to steer clear of Food and Drug Administration regulation. Many assert that this imperative has rendered the health features in its sensor-laden watch underwhelming. Apple didn’t want to cross the lines that would class its new watch as a “medical device” in the eyes of regulators.

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Lockheed Martin Corp. has been planning to sell off or spin off its roughly $4 billion government information technology business since earlier this year. That would include its Cybersecurity unit.

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Recently, I’ve been particularly struck by H2O.ai as another company that has cropped up to propose elegant solutions to enable the productization of open source or machine learning applications. H2O.ai applies engineering and computer science in order to make machine learning in the popular and easy-to-use R language industrial-strength. What do I mean by industrial strength? Well, making R scalable so that it can actually meet the needs of businesses but also adding the missing componentry that make it easy to create a recurring pipeline of applications.

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The wearable device maker still dominates the market but pressure is intensifying to launch impressive products for 2016.

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