Deborah Kaplan

Automation is changing the needed workforce skills. The demand for technology skills will rise by 55% by 2030, according to the 2018 McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, Skill Shift: Automation and the future of the workforce. MGI estimates 14% of the global workforce may need to switch occupational categories by 2030 because of these automation and other digital changes.
Executives see the writing on the wall. Of those polled, 66% reported that "addressing potential skills gaps related to...

For men in the United States, the guidelines for prostate cancer screenings have recently
changed. Who sets these guidelines, and why are they different? Read on to learn about the prostate cancer screening guidelines and how they’ve changed.
If you have more questions about cancer detection and prevention, call the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center at 412-647-2811.
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What Are the New Guidelines for Prostate Cancer Screenings?
In 2012, the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force (USPSTF...

So you just got a raise at work — congratulations! While it's exciting to think about having more money in the bank each pay period, it can also be a good idea to start making plans to put that cash to its best use. It's generally easy to find ways to spend it on entertainment, dining and even travel. But a raise provides the perfect opportunity to help strengthen your financial situation going forward.
Before you decide what to do with the money, you'll want to determine what your new take-h...

Most people are familiar with hormones like estrogen and testosterone, but the body produces a lot of hormones that aren’t as well-known. One of them is cortisol. What is cortisol? The definition of cortisol is a stress hormone produced by the adrenal gland. It helps regulate a person’s motivation, mood, fear, and fight-or-flight response.
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What Is Cortisol?
The cortisol stress hormone does more than just control stress response. Cortisol is produced in the adrenal glands, wh...

Speech recognition software and voice-directed applications have been used in warehouses since the late 1990s. Even with continued technological advancements, though, adoption is still relatively low. About a quarter of warehouses use voice-directed picking, according to a 2018 Warehousing Education and Research Council (WERC) and DC Velocity survey, up from 5.7% in 2008.
As e-commerce order volume continues spiraling upwards while delivery windows shrink, warehouse workers need innovations t...

If your heart has an irregular rhythm — whether constantly or occasionally — you should make an appointment with your primary care doctor or a cardiologist. There are several causes for an abnormal heart rhythm, or arrhythmia, and different ways to treat it. One way is cardiac catheter ablation, a procedure that corrects a heart rhythm problem by selectively destroying areas of the heart that are triggering the abnormal rhythm.
The electrical impulses that make your heart beat travel through ...

The use of big data is revolutionizing many industries, allowing greater insights by drilling into evidence with more detail. Pair that with personalized medicine, where clinicians can tailor a patient’s cancer treatment based on biomarkers, genetic aberrations, or other individual characteristics, and oncologists gain powerful insight that can help predict the best course of treatment for each patient that is based on individual disease characteristics, not just cancer type and stage. Medica...

Supply chain technology is advancing quickly, but are cybersecurity systems keeping pace? The answer is a resounding no.
Given the interconnected nature of the supply chain, a hacker can knock out one or two nodes and a hack becomes hugely problematic, potentially jeopardizing an entire business.
With reports of data hacks constantly in the news, it may seem like cybersecurity incidences are increasing, Jon Boyens, who leads the government’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (N...

Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), the largest freestanding children’s hospital in the world, purchases more than $110 million in pharmaceutical products a year. Until recently, though, the hospital had no visibility into its current stock.
It didn’t know what it had on hand at any given time, couldn’t find recalled medications without a manual search and disposed of at least $17 million in medications annually due to drugs expiring. "We didn’t know where anything was without human intervention...

Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), the largest freestanding children’s hospital in the world, purchases more than $110 million in pharmaceutical products a year. Until recently, though, the hospital had no visibility into its current stock.
It didn’t know what it had on hand at any given time, couldn’t find recalled medications without a manual search and disposed of at least $17 million in medications annually due to drugs expiring. "We didn’t know where anything was without human intervention...

If you're just preparing to start saving for your kids' college education, chances are you may wonder about setting up a 529 plan. Such a plan is one of many ways to put money aside for higher education, and there are a lot of considerations that can influence how you balance it with your other savings strategies.
These plans are named after Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code, as they're a type of college savings account with a special tax structure. You fund the account with after-tax ...

What happens to someone's social media accounts when they pass away? As we share more information about our personal and professional lives across various platforms, it can be worth giving greater thought to the implications of digital life after death.
Planning for this proactively can help us retain some control over what happens to our accounts. It can also be a consolation to grieving loved ones to know there's a plan in place.
For example, one thing many people love about Facebook is the...

While most people living with follicular lymphoma—the most common subtype of slow-growing indolent non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma—respond to treatment, studies conclude that approximately 20 percent of patients relapse within two years of receiving first-line therapy. One area of research to understand this is the tumor microenvironment, which researchers have recognized as a significant driver of this blood cancer.
At the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Dr. Loretta J. Nasto...