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Rise of the machines: Does automation risk going too far?

...computer called Watson creamed everybody on the TV quiz show Jeopardy? IBM is working with New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to develop a "decision support tool" based on Watson to help doctors use tons of data to render evidence-based...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/joe-hotchkiss-columns/2013-01-27/rise-machi
A harrowing hospital rescue in New York

...around the city lined up around the lower Manhattan block to transport the sick to Mount Sinai Hospital, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, St. Luke's Hospital, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Long Island Jewish...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2012-10-31/harrowing-hospital-rescue-new-york
Dr. William Lloyd Meehan

...He completed his residency training at Saint Albans Hospital, New York and served two internships - one being at Sloan Kettering Hospital specializing in Urological Cancer and Presbyterian Hospital specializing in Pediatric Urology in New York...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000154736865
Patrick Chance

...the assistance of other dedicated and loving professionals at the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Patrick was a highly intelligent and curious child who could master complex Lego...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000155436889
Joseph Francis D'Agui Jr.

...prior to the service. Interment will be private. Memorial contributions may be made in his name to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Sarcoma Research Fund, P. O. Box 27106, New York, NY 10087-7105, 866-815-9501. Online...

http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000155622163
'Secret Santas' take care to hide their identity

...who oversees a small group of anonymous donors known publicly only as the "Dream Team" at the Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The group grants wishes to adults who are seriously ill, much like the Make-A-Wish...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/12/15/liv_559483.shtml
Life & style
Overtime

...68 consecutive games without an error, has died. He was 84. Kerr died Tuesday after a short illness at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital, the New York Mets said. Kerr worked for the Mets from 1975-1996 as a special assignment scout. "Buddy's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2006/11/12/oth_104226.shtml
Other sports
Upshaw says balance is gone

...breast cancer, yet more bad news in a year full of heartache for the family. Deanna Favre was recently released from Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after undergoing a lumpectomy, Bonita Favre, the quarterback's mother, told The Sun...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/10/28/pro_432697.shtml
NFL
Giants co-owner Tisch fighting cancer

...Rubenstein, a Tisch family spokesman, would give specifics about the brain tumor. Dr. Alexis Demopoulos of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center said there are two primary types of brain tumors, meningiomas and gliomas. Surgery can be performed...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/08/11/bas_424926.shtml
Baseball
MRIs beat mammograms at finding breast cancer in high-risk women, study finds

...detecting small cancers at an early stage does not guarantee improved survival rates," Dr. Laura Liberman of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York cautioned in an accompanying editorial. Klijn was optimistic that proof would come...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2004/07/30/liv_423732.shtml
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