I caught my aneurysm in time: a health-care exec’s journey into the world of precision health

Precision health is an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that considers individual variability in general environments and lifestyles.

Aneurysms are silent killers. Notoriously hard to detect, it's even harder to know when it might rupture, writes Gary Folker of Orion Health. Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY Gary Folker

November 19, 2018

Spending 30 years in the health-care industry couldn’t prepare me for what was about to happen. Earlier this year, I fought and overcame cancer in my neck. On a trip to my doctor for a follow-up, I noticed something odd on one of my CT scans. I pointed it out to my doctor, who immediately realize...

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