Biomedical technology
Q&A: Updating pulse oximeters
A portable device used to detect blood oxygen levels revolutionized the medical field 50 years ago and is now receiving essential updates.
Jul 7, 2023
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Medical economics
Researchers investigate how health care will change over the next 50 years
Developments in technology are moving forward rapidly and over the next 50 years, health care across the globe will change, including an increased use of AI and robotics. Trends also show that climate change, hunger and diseases ...
Jul 5, 2023
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Health informatics
Researchers outline how AI chatbots could be approved as medical devices
LLM-based generative chat tools, such as ChatGPT or Google's MedPaLM have great medical potential, but there are inherent risks associated with their unregulated use in health care. A new Nature Medicine paper by Prof. Stephen ...
Jun 30, 2023
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Neuroscience
Q&A: Challenges and advances in brain-computer interfaces
In a significant step forward in neurotechnology, companies that make implantable brain-computer interfacing (BCI) devices, such as Neuralink, have received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to conduct ...
Jun 29, 2023
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Medications
Blood thinners may not be as effective in preventing strokes in patients with short arrhythmias as previously thought
Implantable devices and wearables like smart-watches enable continuous or near-continuous monitoring of cardiac rhythm. This leads to detection of short arrhythmias in many people, especially elderly persons with cardiovascular ...
Jun 28, 2023
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Sports medicine & Kinesiology
Fiber optic smart pants offer a low-cost way to monitor movements
With an aging global population comes a need for new sensor technologies that can help clinicians and caregivers remotely monitor a person's health. New smart pants based on fiber optic sensors could help by offering a nonintrusive ...
Jun 27, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Depressed patients less likely to take their heart medications, finds research
Patients who feel low when having a cardiac device implanted are more likely to stop taking their heart medications than those without depression, according to research presented today at ACNAP 2023, a scientific congress ...
Jun 24, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Group suggests we need education on overuse of digital technology and healthier ways of dealing with feelings
If you look around any waiting room or queue of people, almost all will be on a mobile phone. But alleviating boredom is just one way digital devices are being increasingly used to manage emotions including stress and anxiety, ...
Jun 20, 2023
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Cardiology
Wearable devices may improve cardiac health, but adoption is low among those with CVD risk, study finds
A recent study in JAMA Network Open found that fewer than 1 in 4 people with or at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) use wearable devices, and only half of those who wear them do so consistently.
Jun 8, 2023
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Health
Bedtime rules make for better teen sleep, finds Australian study
Parents setting bedtime rules can be "protective" of their teenage children's health and well-being, helping them to establish good sleep routines as young adults and in the future, say Flinders University researchers.
Jun 7, 2023
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