Cases have surged in China since it dropped its zero-COVID policy in December, and the latest models now suggest that at least 1 million people may die as a result. Many countries have responded by policing their borders: Last week, the CDC announced that anyone entering the United States from China would be required to […]
After months and months of SARS-CoV-2 subvariant soup, one ingredient has emerged in the United States with a flavor pungent enough to overwhelm the rest: XBB.1.5, an Omicron offshoot that now accounts for an estimated 75 percent of cases in the Northeast. A crafty dodger of antibodies that is able to grip extra tightly onto […]
Updated at 9:45 a.m. ET on January 5, 2023 During this week’s Monday Night Football game, the 24-year-old Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapsed moments after making a routine defensive play. Hamlin seemed to have suffered a blow to his chest shortly before losing consciousness from cardiac arrest, and his condition is grave. The source […]
Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg and former Secretary of the Maryland Department of Health from 2011 to 2014, said that, at the start of his term in Maryland, half or two-thirds of the hospitals were connected for data sharing, and the data would often only provide information for clinical lookups, such as whether the […]
At the tail end of 2022, Click Therapeutics announced it was expanding its partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim focused on developing prescription digital therapeutics for patients with schizophrenia. Pharma partnerships aren’t new for digital health players, or for Click, which has several products in its development pipeline. The company’s chief strategy officer, Austin Speier, said Click looks […]
Researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, in partnership with the Queensland University of Technology, have developed what could be the world’s first AI-based benchmark for measuring brain atrophy. WHAT IT’S ABOUT They used AI to develop a set of artificial MRI brain images with predefined signs of neurodegeneration in the cortex region, […]
NERVTEX, a Chinese company focused on developing digital therapeutics for brain disorders, has obtained the approval of the China National Medical Products Administration for its AI-powered movement disorder analysis software. Called MoDAS (Movement Dysfunction Assessment Software), the software as a medical device uses computer vision and deep learning to analyse videos of a patient’s movement captured […]
Workplace wellbeing company Unmind announced Thursday it had acquired Dublin-based employee mental healthcare platform Frankie Health. Alongside the deal, the company launched Unmind Talk, an offering based on Frankie Health’s global network of mental health providers. Unmind Talk offers employees a personalized number of sessions with professional mental health providers, along with Unmind’s existing digital […]
Clinical trial tech company Science 37 announced Thursday it has acquired a life science platform from Vault Health, which offers COVID-19 testing and health-screening services for employers. Science 37 said the deal accelerates its plans to add features like advanced scheduling, investigational product tracking and data sharing with electronic data capture systems and EHRs. The […]
As the first national coordinator for health information technology in 2004, David Brailer, current executive vice president and chief health officer at Cigna, said he and his team had four priorities: increase clinical decision-making quality, advance public health, accelerate consumer self-care and self-empowerment, and advance clinical research and science at the bedside. At Tuesday’s event, […]
