Medtech / devices
An insertable Bluetooth-enabled cardiac monitor offering the world's longest battery life has been cleared for use in the US by the country's Food and Drug Administration. Global healthcare player Abbott's Assert-IQ will give physicians a new option for diagnostic evaluation and long-term surveillance of people experiencing irregular heartbeats. Known as arrhythmias, the heart can beat too [...]
A more accurate and faster diagnostic technique for neurodegenerative diseases could open the door for earlier treatment and alleviation of the likes of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. The groundbreaking process developed by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers, significantly improves the performance of advanced protein-misfolding detection methods in both humans and animals. A protein is said [...]
Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki and his wife have donated $6.2m to develop a new software platform that could revolutionise the study and treatment of brain disorders, such as dementia. Neuroblox is a cutting-edge programme that will model brain circuits to treat a range of neurological disorders like dementia, epilepsy, ADD, schizophrenia, and bipolar [...]
Heart attacks could soon be diagnosed faster and more accurately thanks to a new test developed with artificial intelligence. It's hoped the UK-led breakthrough could reduce the pressure on accident and emergency departments and help end inequalities in diagnosis, which previous research has shown sees women 50% more likely to get a wrong initial prognosis. [...]
A new artificial intelligence tool may be able to successfully identify people at risk of pancreatic cancer up to three years in advance. The breakthrough AI model used patients' medical records and information from previous scans to detect those at risk of the deadly disease, which can be hard to catch early, difficult to treat, [...]
The man behind an innovative exercise and rehabilitation system to screen patients at risk of serious falls, believes it will "revolutionise" the way the primary care sector deals with what has become a massive global problem linked to ageing. Tim Henson has spent the last decade and hundreds of thousands of pounds developing the Formula [...]
Scientists researching an 'ancient virus' treatment for metastatic prostate cancer have been awarded $1.7 million by the US Department for Defense. Oncology expert Charles Spruck's laboratory at Sanford Burnham Prebys in California, is focused on developing new, effective, and non-toxic treatments for patients with advanced cancers. Now the associate professor and his team will use [...]
An innovative test to help detect the early stages of oesophageal cancer, has won £3.4m in grant funding. It means more diagnostic tests can be offered to NHS patients in primary and community care settings, diverting them away from lengthy hospital endoscopy waiting lists. One of the biggest grants of its kind, the multi-million pound [...]
Type 2 diabetics could soon be able to control their own blood sugar levels without the need to take insulin. Researchers say a new hour-long procedure that uses controlled electrical pulses to induce changes in the lining of the first part of the small intestine, has shown promise in helping type 2 diabetics maintain glycemic [...]
An iPad app developed in the United States could help doctors screen for a wide range of neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's and dementia, in five minutes or less. Developed at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, the NIH (National Institutes of Health) Toolbox V3 iPad app allows time-strapped clinicians to quickly but thoroughly assess patients, from [...]
