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Telehealth/Telemedicine: An Opportunity for Physicians and Providers…
The cost effectiveness of providing health care via telemedicine or telehealth promises to be an effective tool to increase coverage and reimbursement of healthcare provided remotely or through telehealth.
How 3D printing could revolutionize burn treatment
TORONTO – Dr. Marc Jeschke, the head of one of Canada’s largest burn treatment centers, had to admit the 3D skin printer in his hands didn’t look revolutionary. “I actually find it kind of fish-tanky,” he told CBS News, laughing.
Brain-Brain Communication Experiment Repeated and Improved
In this photo above, UW students Darby Losey, left, and Jose Ceballos are positioned in two different buildings on campus as they would be during a brain-to-brain interface demonstration. The sender, left, thinks about firing a cannon at various points throughout a computer game.
How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionizing Flu Forecasting
This time last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta launched a competition to find the best way to forecast the characteristics of the 2013-2014 influenza season using data gathered from the internet.
Biomimetic engineered muscle with capacity for vascular integration and functional maturation in vivo
Engineering of highly functional skeletal muscle tissues can provide accurate models of muscle physiology and disease and aid treatment of various muscle disorders. Previous tissue-engineering efforts have fallen short of recreating structural and contractile properties of native muscle in vitro.
New Heartbeat Detector May Save Lives After Disasters
They give us hints about the origins of the universe, relay signals to our televisions, and nuke bags of popcorn when we’re in the mood to watch a movie. Microwave radiation is a versatile part of our lives, and someday it could save them.
Revolution in Artificial Limbs Brings Feeling Back to Amputees
Something is missing. Every amputee knows it, and it is more than the arm or leg they have lost. They can get replacements for those limbs: substitutes made from metal and plastic, controlled by advanced computer chips, with the ability to grip, to turn, to step.
Future of prosthetics: Bionic hand lets you feel what you are holding
This bionic hand allows the user to be able to hold objects and feel what the object is, in real-time. It has allowed its wearer to feel things in a ‘natural’ way as it combines man and machine.
Google X cancer pill has 100 researchers and “years to go, not decades”
Andrew Conrad, the Google X researcher heading up the company’s recently-announced ingestible-wearable sensor platform, has shared a good deal more information about the project in an interview with BackChannel. He said he believes the project is only a few years away from viability.
Artificial Intelligence Outperforms Average Japanese High School Senior in English
Artificial intelligence in Japan is getting closer to entering college. An AI software system scored higher on the English section of Japan’s standardized college entrance test than the average Japanese high school senior recently, the development team said.