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Philips receives FDA clearance for two telehealth apps
Philips received FDA 510(k) clearance for two of its telehealth applications, eCareCoordinator and eCareCompanion.
Telemonitoring reduces readmissions 44 percent in 4-year, 500-patient study
A new study from Pennsylvania hospital system Geisinger Health Plan shows that remote monitoring of congestive heart failure patients can reduce readmissions by 38 to 44 percent and produce a return on investment of $3.30 on the dollar.
The Rise of the M.D./M.B.A. Degree
At a time when many of healthcare’s greatest challenges are business problems, more and more doctors are adding three extra letters after their names. For David Gellis, the spark came during a class in college on health policy in America.
Doctors Today Are Utterly Miserable. Here’s Why
Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
The sizeable majority of experts surveyed for this report envision major advances in robotics and artificial intelligence in the coming decade. In addition to asking them for their predictions about the job market of the future, we also asked them to weigh in on the following question:
The Woman With the Bionic Eye
What is it like to see again after years of blindness? Fran Fulton is 66, and she’s been fully blind for about 10 years. A few weeks ago, all that changed. Fulton suffers from retinitis pigmentosa—a degenerative eye disease that slowly causes light-sensitive cells in the retina to die off.
With Spinal Implant, Paralyzed Rats Can Walk Again
It’s a strange sight: a paralyzed rat walking on its hind legs in a precise cadence, all controlled by a computer. The study is part of a wider effort to help paralyzed people walk again by zapping their spinal cords with electrical pulses.
After Long Delays, Radical Nanopore Sequencer Finally in Labs
One day in 1989, biophysicist David Deamer pulled his car off California’s Interstate 5 to hurriedly scribble down an idea. In a mental flash, he had pictured a strand of DNA threading its way through a microscopic pore.
The Global Problem With Overdiagnosis and Overtreatment
It’s a public health conundrum: Current screening guidelines lead to an overdiagnosis of diseases like cancer, which results in overtreatment for ailments that might never seriously impact a person’s health. We’ve heard the overdiagnosis argument in the U.S.
Top 10 Emerging Technologies That Are Changing The World
The world is changing fast, and it can be hard to keep up with all the various technologies being developed at any one time. From agriculture to medicine to energy, advancements are being made every day — and some of them will change the world as we know it.
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