Tag: medical device
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Challenge Seeks Point-of-Care, Home Maternal Health Technologies
A crowdsourced competition offered by NIH is seeking new technologies to monitor the health and detect early problems with new babies and their mothers, at the point of care or in the home.
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A.I. Mammogram Screening Shown to Improve Cancer Detection
Results of a clinical trial show one radiologist using software with artificial intelligence can detect more breast cancer cases in mammograms than current reviews by two radiologists.
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Neurons from Stem Cells Produced for Overdose Therapy Tests
Researchers use stem cells to generate human neurons resembling those in the brain that control breathing during opioid reactions, for eventual chip devices to test overdose therapies.
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NIH Challenge Seeks Early Alzheimer’s Indicators with A.I.
A new crowdsourced competition seeks more robust early indicators of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias using analytics powered by artificial intelligence.
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Grant Funds Typhoid Vaccine Patch Development
A health research foundation grant is funding development of a vaccine protecting against typhoid fever, given in a patch from from a spring-loaded device.
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HHS Directs $100M for Covid-19 Venture Investments
The Department of Health and Human Services is allocating $100 million for venture investments in new technologies to prepare for future threats from Covid-19.
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Company Gains Ultrasound-Linked Drug Capsule Technology
A company developing a drug delivery process with treatments activated by ultrasound received an option to license a key technology from its founders’ university labs.
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Industry, Univ. Labs Partner on Parkinson’s Digital Biomarkers
A developer of electronic health data tools and a university’s neuroscience labs are collaborating on tests of Parkinson’s disease drugs using digital measures of patient functioning.
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Health App Shown to Improve Asthma, Depression Outcomes
Findings from two clinical trials show a digital health mobile app helps improve outcomes and manage the conditions for people with depression and asthma.
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A.I. Analytics Detect Heart Failure in Single Ultrasound View
A system using deep learning algorithms to analyze ultrasound video images is shown to detect a difficult-to diagnose type of heart failure with clips from one view of the heart.