Antidote Health to Set Up Nation's First Virtual HMO
Antidote Health, a telehealth provider, announced it has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI-based virtual Health maintenance organization (HMO). The round was led by iAngels, Well-Tech Ventures, and Flint Capital, along with other angel investors. Antidote Health is a B2C company that launched in January, providing...
How a vial of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine travels from a lab in Missouri to an arm in Bangladesh
Ravi Anupindi, University of Michigan Inoculating the planet from COVID-19 presents an unprecedented logistical challenge like none we’ve seen before. Mobilizing for a world war may be the closest comparison – but in this case, the enemy is invisible and everywhere. Some of the vaccines require super-cold storage at virtually...
Why the CDC Recommends Wearing Masks Indoors Even if You’re Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Peter Chin-Hong, University of California, San Francisco Vaccinated people need to mask up again, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On July 27, 2021, the CDC recommended that everyone in areas with high COVID-19 infection rates wear masks in public indoor spaces, regardless of vaccination...
Health Apps Track Vital Stats for Millions, But Doctors Aren’t Using the Valuable Data
Saligrama Agnihothri, Binghamton University, State University of New York Health-tracking devices and apps are becoming part of everyday life. More than 300,000 mobile phone applications claim to help with managing diverse personal health issues, from monitoring blood glucose levels to conceiving a child. But so far the potential...
Tokyo Olympics: What are the limits of human performance?
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Gemma Ware, The Conversation Are there limits to how much faster, higher, or stronger an athlete can get? In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we talk to researchers in biomechanics, sports technology, and psychology, to find out. And we hear about what happened at the troubled 1920...
New COVID-19 vaccine warnings don’t mean it’s unsafe – they mean the system to report side effects is working
Justin Vesser, University of Virginia While the COVID-19 vaccines currently available in the U.S. have been proved to be safe and effective, recent reports of rare adverse events, or side effects, have raised concerns. On July 12, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration approved an update to the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine...
Xandar Kardian’s Health Monitoring Radar Technology Earns FDA Clearance
Xandar Kardian, the world’s first and only commercially deployed, non-contact, continuous, and completely autonomous health monitoring solution utilizing proprietary radar technology, announced today that it's XK300 Autonomous Health Monitoring Solution has achieved 510(k) Clearance by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, paving...
Cybin Inc. Partners with Kernel’s Flow To Quantify Brain Activity During Therapy
According to The World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people in the world will be affected by mental or neurological disorders at some point in their lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues and heightened anxiety and triggered new conditions for people already suffering from mental illnesses...
Cybin Advances Psilocybin as Treatment for Depression and Addiction
A biotechnology company focusing on psilocybin (found in several “psychedelic” mushrooms) recently announced significant advancements in treatment for depression and addiction. Cybin is a Canadian biotechnology company focusing on progressing psychedelic therapeutics by utilizing proprietary drug discovery platforms,...
3 Surprising New Medical Technologies That Will Blow Your Mind
The rate of technological change in our world is incredible. It feels like one day you're using your camera phone for the first time, the next you're using a smartphone to run your entire life. A lot can slip by. So much so, that when new innovations are shown to us, it suddenly feels like we are living in the future. This is...
Prolonged brain dysfunction in COVID-19 survivors: A pandemic in its own right?
Chris Robinson, University of Florida One in three survivors of COVID-19, those more commonly referred to as COVID-19 long-haulers, suffered from neurologic or psychiatric disability six months after infection, a recent landmark study of more than 200,000 post-COVID-19 patients showed. Researchers looked at 236,379 British...
Printing Human Organs: Additive Manufacturing in Healthcare
It's no secret that additive manufacturing (AM) has massive potential in all kinds of innovative solutions across industries. In healthcare, 3D printing stands to revolutionize products and care solutions alike for the benefit of millions across the world. But understanding where additive manufacturing is being applied in the...
3 medical innovations fueled by COVID-19 that will outlast the pandemic
Deborah Fuller, University of Washington; Albert H. Titus, University at Buffalo, and Nevan Krogan, University of California, San Francisco A number of technologies and tools got a chance to prove themselves for the first time in the context of COVID-19. Three researchers working in gene-based vaccines, wearable diagnostics and drug...
Hyperice Venom — Using Tech To Soothe Back Pain
Have you heard, this pandemic thing is more than a year old? Making it almost 12 times longer than Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign (remember that week, it was fun). The pandemic has forced many of us home — working, sitting, standing, or laying on the couch. The amount of time people spend sitting in front of desk and...
Top 5 Innovative Health Tech Devices for 2021
Nuances in modern language are beginning to paint a portrait of posthumanist philosophies, being delivered incrementally into reality, through advances in science and the medical industry. In an era when academics debate biological terms, some are beginning to wonder what it will even mean to be ‘human’ decades from now. In a...
St. Patrick’s Day: A time to toast ... your liver
Marie-Pierre Hasne, University of Arizona St. Patrick’s Day is here, and even though most big celebrations have been canceled because of coronavirus, we still have something to cheer over – our livers. If St. Patrick is celebrated for his unselfish commitment converting Ireland to Christianity, we should also celebrate the...
Using Digital Health Technology To Advance Medical Nutrition Therapy
Diet is the number one-cause of premature death and disability in the world; and most deaths can be prevented by diet.
Review: Amazon Halo is Making Me A Healthy Person
At the end of last year, Amazon announced its new wearable device — the Halo. The device, they said, would be dedicated to health, with no watch face and no text messaging.
Top 5 Jobs Robots Could Have in the Next Decade…Will Yours Be Next?
While automation and the use of robotics has drastically increased the efficiency of manufacturing processes, logistics, and delivery, the casualty list for a slew of manual and service-based jobs on and off the production line is growing.
CES 2021: Covid-19 Pandemic Sent Medical Technology into Warp Speed
It's tough to say there can be any benefit to a pandemic that has strewn a path of destruction across the globe. But, there is at least one – the launch of medical technology years into the future. What was believed to be the technology of five years down the road, has overnight become the technology of today. Telemedicine has grown...
AR & VR telemedicine as a new norm
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the healthcare industry to the limit, making providers speed up the adoption of health IT tools allowing for remote healthcare services.
Health Technology, Gamification, and Game Mechanics – Win or Fail?
Gamification and game mechanics have been introduced into the health care arena to help engage and motivate us. Taking advantage of basic human psychology, these techniques play on a person’s desire to win. Competition-based and socially focused initiatives can be easily combined with mobile apps as well as activity challenges and are...
Why The FDA’s Recent Approval Of New Vaccine Is A Gigantic Win In The War On Cancer
The global war against the coronavirus pandemic continues to wage on while researchers and medical experts seek to find a cure for COVID-19 symptoms. While many believe this is here to stay for an indefinite period, others feel that this too, shall pass.
