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Can Mobile Technologies and Big Data Improve Health?
After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing, and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us.
Pig Heart Transplants For Humans Are On The Way
She’s got the heart of a pig—and that’s a good thing. Researchers are reporting that a baboon is still alive after receiving a heart transplanted from a pig, The Telegraph reports. The baboon has lived with the heart in its abdomen for more than a year. Its longevity is a milestone.
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The international community appeared to be shaken by the withering assault on the neighborhood of Shejaiya and by the deaths of 87 Palestinians and 13 Israeli soldiers, including one from California and one from Texas.
Jerry The Bear Helps Diabetic Kids Learn to Manage Their Own Blood Sugar
If you’re a young kid diagnosed with diabetes, it can be hard to submit to all the self-monitoring that people with the disease must do each and every day.
HelpAround raises $550K for sharing economy diabetes app
Israel-based HelpAround, which makes an app that connects people with diabetes in the same immediate area, has raised $550,000 from Windham Venture Partners and angel investors Walter Winshall, Robert Oringer and former Harmonix COO Michael Dornbrook.
3D Bioprinting Breakthrough Allows for Complex Vascularization To Be Created
3D printing has already been used to create several types of human tissue, such as liver tissue which is currently being used in drug toxicity testing. Yet there is still a major hurdle to get from the tiny sheets of 3D printed organ tissue, to entire, functional 3D printed organs.
Google signs deal to put sensors directly on your eye
Google and Novartis have this morning announced an agreement to collaborate on the development of the smart contact lens that was unveiled by Google X in January.
Engineered red blood cells can turn blood into medicine
Red blood cells are among the most mobile cells in the body. They tend to be welcome everywhere, carrying the body’s most desperately needed resource — think of them like the guy who brings the checks around at work.
A Brain-Computer Interface for Speech
Could a person who is paralyzed and unable to speak, like physicist Stephen Hawking, use a brain implant to carry on a conversation? That’s the goal of an expanding research effort at U.S.
Hospitals Are Mining Patients’ Credit Card Data to Predict Who Will Get Sick
Imagine getting a call from your doctor if you let your gym membership lapse, make a habit of buying candy bars at the checkout counter, or begin shopping at plus-size clothing stores.
Christian Assad, MD Interventional Endovascular Cardiology
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