Biomedical technology
Can wearables track the severity of COVID symptoms?
Fitness trackers can tell you how well you're sleeping, how fast you're walking and, of course, how many steps you've taken.
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Medical research
Metabolism-focused startup aims to shorten time between scientific insight and therapies
One of the major challenges in modern medicine is the length of time required to turn new scientific insights into treatments that help patients. Now, the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is launching an innovative ...
Sep 6, 2018
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Immunology
Researchers successfully model antibody-mediated transplant rejection in human kidneys
A significant concern after a person receives an organ transplant from a donor is antibody mediated rejection (AMR)—a process by which antibodies in the recipient can cause their immune systems to reject and damage the ...
Nov 23, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study indicates link between tech use, anxiety, depression in older adults
Using data collected from the National Health and Aging Trends Study, Harvard Medical School researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital explored the various communication patterns that adults age 65 and older reported having ...
Apr 19, 2023
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Neuroscience
Ultrasound enables less-invasive brain-machine interfaces
Brain–machine interfaces (BMIs) are devices that can read brain activity and translate that activity to control an electronic device like a prosthetic arm or computer cursor. They promise to enable people with paralysis ...
Nov 30, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists develop COVID-19 antibody measurement technology to rapidly assess virus blocking efficacy
Do a person's antibodies work to block the COVID-19 virus from infecting one's system? Are these antibodies also capable of blocking emerging variants such as the omicrons?
Apr 21, 2022
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Autism spectrum disorders
A drug for autism? Potential treatment for Pitt-Hopkins syndrome offers clues
In 2019, geeks are cool, and the idea that they might be on the autism spectrum is celebrated. Nowhere is this truer than in Silicon Valley, one of the few places in America where social quirkiness and laser focus attention ...
Apr 29, 2019
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Ophthalmology
New app helps children with 'lazy eye' visual impairment
Eye specialists, mathematicians and games designers at the University of Southampton have teamed up to develop and launch a smartphone app aimed at helping improve vital treatment for children with amblyopia, a common visual ...
May 30, 2023
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Health informatics
Verifying and validating the clinical usefulness of wearable technology
A collaborative team of researchers from the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) and biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a framework that will help data scientists and other researchers use better digital health ...
May 18, 2020
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Medical research
Pandemic sparked key innovations in health care, experts say
Lessons learned over the past two years will not only improve the nation's ability to handle the next pandemic but also lead to substantive gains throughout the health care system.
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