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Tiny ‘Raindrop’ implant in your eye could banish reading glasses forever

September 13, 2014 Leave a comment

Scientists have developed a new technique that could see reading glasses banished forever. The operation involves placing a tiny implant – known as a ‘Raindrop’ inlay – underneath the cornea in a bid to reverse vision problems associated with ageing.

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IBM’s Watson to help Mayo Clinic tackle clinical trials

September 9, 2014 Leave a comment

IBM’s Watson, a cognitive computing system that has already been deployed in a number of healthcare use cases, is teaming up with Mayo Clinic to bring its computing power to bear on the  age-old problem of matching active clinical trials with eligible participants.

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Why Doctors Are Sick of Their Profession

September 9, 2014 Leave a comment

All too often these days, I find myself fidgeting by the doorway to my exam room, trying to conclude an office visit with one of my patients.

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Humans Need Not Apply

September 8, 2014 Leave a comment

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Scientists ‘make telepathy breakthrough’

September 7, 2014 Leave a comment

Research led by experts at Harvard University shows technology can be used to send a simple mental message from one person to another without any contact between the two. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday 6 September.

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Medtronic Sees a High-Tech Solution to Global Health Woes

September 4, 2014 Leave a comment

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If you believe that health care is a human right, as does Stephen Oesterle, Medtronic’s VP of medicine and technology, you need to look for global health solutions that scale up. “We can’t build enough hospitals or train enough physicians to take care of all these people,” Oesterle says.

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Sanofi launches mobile game for kids with type 1 diabetes in the UK

September 4, 2014 Leave a comment

Sanofi Diabetes, a division of Sanofi-Aventis, has launched a new mobile game for iOS and Android phones in the United Kingdom. The game, called Mission T1D, is meant to be educational, to teach children as well as their parents, caregivers, and friends about Type 1 diabetes.

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DARPA’s tiny implants will hook directly into your nervous system, treat diseases and depression without medication

September 4, 2014 Leave a comment

DARPA, on the back of the US government’s BRAIN program, has begun the development of tiny electronic implants that interface directly with your nervous system and can directly control and regulate many different diseases and chronic conditions, such as arthritis, PTSD, inflammatory bowel disea

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The Case For Intelligent Failure To Invent The Future

September 3, 2014 Leave a comment

Editor’s note: Vinod Khosla is the founder of Khosla Ventures. The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In the past, experts with spreadsheets and econometric models or social scientists with subscale studies and linear models may have been useful.

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Medicine’s Next Big Mission: Understanding Wellness

September 1, 2014 Leave a comment

The bioengineering pioneer Leroy Hood has seen vast changes in medicine over his decades in the biz, in part thanks to his own work on automated DNA sequencing. But he’s not much for looking back — he’s too busy envisioning a future model of medicine.

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