Kia is recalling 1,200 EV6 and Niro EVs over faulty drive shafts

  • February 5, 2024
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Kia is recalling just over 1,200 EV6 and Niro EVs over a faulty drive shaft that can result in a loss of power. Kia is recalling certain EV6 and Niro EVs The recall impacts the 2023 Kia EV6 and 2023-2024 Niro EV models. Kia says 1,243 vehicles are potentially affected. In a letter to the […]

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GE HealthCare scores 510(k) clearance for maternal and fetal monitoring platform

  • February 5, 2024
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GE HealthCare received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Novii+ maternal and fetal monitoring solution, which will become available to U.S. customers later in the year. The device, consisting of a wearable and wireless sensor, enables noninvasive measurement and display of fetal heart rate, maternal heart rate and uterine activity for pregnant patients at or beyond […]

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How Psychiatry Broke the Top 40

  • February 5, 2024
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Alex Kresovich, who has studied mental health references in pop music, said Kanye West’s 2008 album “808s & Heartbreak,” paved the way for a sub-genre known as emo rap. On the album, West, who now goes by Ye, chronicled his grief and depression after a breakup and his mother’s death. “Not only are these songs […]

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Cedars-Sinai utilizes Apple Vision Pro and AI to create mental health companion

  • February 5, 2024
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Cedars-Sinai announced the launch of Xaia, a spatial-computing, AI-enabled virtual psychotherapy companion accessible on the Apple Vision Pro headset that aims to help people with anxiety, addiction, depression and pain management. The healthcare system dubs the experience “generated reality,” which it defines as merging technology and therapy.  Developed at the medical extended-reality lab at Cedars-Sinai, Xaia […]

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GoFundMe Is a Health-Care Utility Now

  • February 5, 2024
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GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting “ideas and dreams,” and, as GoFundMe’s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, “for life’s important moments.” In the early years, it funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now GoFundMe has become a go-to for patients trying to […]