Tag: software
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NIH Funding New Robotics for Disabled, Children
4 December 2015. National Institutes of Health is funding research and development of new robotic devices to help older people or those with disabilities and serve as companions for children. Agencies in NIH plan to spend $2.2 million on these cooperative robotic, or co-robot, devices over the next five years, as part of the National…
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Study: Records Database Offers Clinical Trial Savings
3 December 2015. A cost-benefit analysis shows pharmaceutical companies could reap sizable savings in their planning and conduct of clinical trials if they made regular use of a European electronic health records database. The study, led by Data Mining Institute in Geneva, Switzerland with co-authors from several pharmaceutical companies, appears in the January 2016 issue…
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Wearable Personal Instruction System Being Developed
2 December 2015. A device that provides personal step-by-step instruction to individuals as they undertake various tasks is being developed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University. The system, designed in the lab of professor Mahadev Satyanarayanan, is funded by a four-year $2.8 million grant from National Science Foundation. Satyanarayanan and colleagues are seeking a…
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Crop Disease Images Collected, Available Via Smartphones
25 November 2015. A team in the U.S. and Switzerland is assembling a database of 50,000 images of plant diseases for a smartphone app to help farmers worldwide deal with those diseases. Entomologist David Hughes at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and epidemiologist Marcel Salathé at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne or EPFL, the…
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Vital-Signs Sensors Built Into Ingestible Capsule
19 November 2015. Engineering and medical researchers developed and tested in pigs a swallowed capsule with sensors that records heart and respiratory rates in real time. The team from the bioengineering lab of Robert Langer and Lincoln Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology published its proof-of-concept results yesterday in the journal PLOS One. The technology from…
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Genomic, Patient Data Integrated for Precision Medicine
18 November 2015. A collaboration of genomic profiling and software companies plans to integrate their services to provide what they call more informed precision medicine treatment options for cancer patients. Financial aspects of the agreement between genetic diagnostics enterprise Caris Life Sciences in Irving, Texas and software provider Syapse in Palo Alto, California were not…
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Study Explores Quality of Life for Dogs with Arthritis
16 November 2015. The veterinary medicines company Zoetis is sponsoring a study of pain management and quality of life in dogs with osteoarthritis, using a mobile health monitor worn by the dogs. The 900 dogs serving as subjects in the study will wear the health monitor collar made by Voyce, known officially as i4C Innovations,…
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Smartphone Add-On Found Comparable to Pro Stethoscopes
12 November 2015. A device added to ordinary smartphones was found in a clinical trial to transmit cardiovascular sounds as well as professional stethoscopes used by clinicians, and better than FDA-approved disposable stethoscopes. Developers of the Heartbuds device and app, from Orlando Health, a health care provider in Florida, presented their test results earlier this…
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Winners of ALS Variation Models Challenge Announced
5 November 2015. Participants from universities in the U.S. and Taiwan are winners of a challenge to develop mathematical models that predict variations in progression of ALS in patients with the disease. The Dream ALS Stratification Prize4Life Challenge is a joint undertaking of Sage Bionetworks, a not-for-profit biomedical research organization, Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment…
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Wearable Asthma Trigger Detector in Development
4 November 2015. A wearable device that detects conditions triggering asthma attacks in children is being developed by a team of engineers and behavioral scientists. The four-year project brings together sensor designers at University of Maryland-Baltimore County and psychologists at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, funded by a $2 million grant from National Institute of…