The Future of Medicine: What You Need to Know
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Importance of Data Deserts in Pregnancy
I think in the end to the federal government's probably going to have to help financially. I would argue, at least up until recently, pregnancy and what happens during that nine-month period is an enormous data desert. We know almost nothing about how kids develop. And I think menstruation has devastating consequences for women if it's not dealt with in an appropriate kind of fashion. So there are places where there are real imperatives to start looking at this big data view of physiologic conditions like pregnancy or menstruation or rare diseases.
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