and quietly racking up victories in what was
once known as the War on Cancer. Big Data and
artificial intelligence are revealing approaches
to health care long out of reach of human
comprehension—and also exposing the blind
spots of research too long focused on the white,
wealthy and Western.
Medicine is a matter of science. But it’s alsoa matter of income, geography and justice.
Access to health care is still impeded in much of
the world—by neglect, by
distance, by governance,
by prejudice and by fixed
ideas of the possible.
Scientific advances be-
come medical progress
only when they reach the
people who need them
most.
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