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You could argue that telemedicine has been around as long as the telephone. Just as dialing a rotary phone has changed to telling Alexa to make the call, telemedicine has morphed from the doctor simply instructing you to “take two ...

Three-D printers make artificial limbs, “organs” so lifelike they appear to bleed and replacements for parts of jaw bones. And, the technology continues to advance. In a nutshell, a 3-D printer creates solid objects from digital representations of those objects. ...

Like most industries in the world of health care, medical imaging is one that is constantly changing in response to a more connected planet. The field seeks to provide a convenient, intuitive patient experience through instantly transferrable documents and more ...

Accountants, engineers and other professionals who want to hang out their own shingles need to be aware of the risks of working on their own. “There are always risks when you’re a professional, says Lynn Belecki, business development manager at ...

Assessing and managing risks is an important part of any business endeavor, but without any one-size-fits-all approach it can be a difficult task for many companies to shoulder, especially in an ever-changing world. Risk management is the assessment and calculation ...

If you’re going to achieve your important financial goals, you’ll need to build an appropriate investment portfolio. But that’s only part of the story—because you also need to protect what you have, what you earn and what you’d like to ...

Lawsuits related to illnesses and injuries caused by asbestos and lead are probably more numerous and costly than any other area of tort litigation over the past 30 to 40 years. Since about 1980 there have been 800,000 asbestos-related claims ...

In the excitement of starting your small business and in the daily work of keeping it going, you may not think about something going wrong and getting sued. “There’s good reason for that,” said Adam Braveman of Harter Secrest & ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently announced that the legalization of adult recreational marijuana would be a legislative priority in 2019, and included in one of his budget bills a proposal to make this priority a reality. Although the New York State ...

Mixed-use developments are trending in urban areas across the country as people seek to live in and around downtown areas where jobs and leisure activities are plentiful, but financial experts say a tendency to look at mixed-use developments as a ...

Local banks say the Rochester-area market for commercial real estate (CRE) loans is in good shape. “In terms of loan originations and loan production, we’re really as busy as we have ever been,” says Richard Mueller, group manager of commercial ...

The commercial real estate market may encounter only speed bumps in 2019, thanks to a more tempered approach to interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, lenders and brokers say. While there isn’t a lockstep correlation between a fluctuating prime ...

From the way Ed White speaks, AIM Photonics drew a lot of attention at Photonics West, a leading event for the photonics and laser industries that was recently held in San Francisco. “Even more importantly, we had a lot of ...

A Beatles song famously opens with “It was twenty years ago today / Sargent Pepper taught the band to play.” To me, those words are about culture change. Twenty years ago, due in part to the decline of the Big ...

The hard sciences, otherwise known as STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), have long been devoid of significant female representation. According to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, women in most science and engineering fields make up only a fraction ...