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Philips launches new UK Population Health Management tools at EHI Live 2016

At this year’s EHI Live in Birmingham Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) today announced it will unveil a selection of new UK Population Health Management tools as part of its offering in connected care.

1 Nov 2016

Accelerated Access Review makes clear recommendations on reforms to speed up patients’ access to innovative technologies

A national report launched today, the Accelerated Access Review (AAR), has recognised the important role of Academic Health Science Networks as innovation exchanges, that create opportunities to ensure digital product development meets NHS needs.

1 Nov 2016

Bibby Scientific to display latest technologies at Lab Innovations 2016

Bibby Scientific Ltd, a leading manufacturer of laboratory equipment, announced today that it will be exhibiting some of its newest technologies and offering an exclusive 10% discount to visitors to their stand, G5, at Lab Innovations 2016.

1 Nov 2016

Prior Scientific introduces new motorised microscope stage for precise microplate imaging

Prior Scientific announces the H139, a new motorised microscope stage designed to enable life scientists to precisely position, move and image up to two microplates or nine microscope slides.

From Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd. 1 Nov 2016

Researchers develop new way to test strength of immune response

The immune system orchestrates large and small scale attacks on innumerous targets: viruses, bacteria, cancer, but it also misfires causing allergy or autoimmune reactions.

27 Oct 2016

Video games featuring alcohol and tobacco content may influence adolescents

Images and references to alcohol and tobacco in popular video games may be influencing UK teens who play the games and the age restriction system is not working, according to a new study.

25 Oct 2016

MTPConnect to provide $7.4 million funding for 14 national projects in medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical sector

MTPConnect - the Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Industry Growth Centre - today announced it will provide $7.4 million of funding over two years for 14 national projects in the medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical (MTP) sector.

25 Oct 2016

Salk researchers develop new computer program to measure blepharosplasm severity

If two clinicians observe the same patient with blepharospasm -- uncontrollable muscle contractions around the eye -- they'll often come away with two different conclusions on the severity of the patient's symptoms.

24 Oct 2016

UGA researchers developing big data methods to help tackle diseases

The University of Georgia's Ping Ma will use a new grant to crunch big data numbers, not uncommon for a statistics professor. What is unusual is that his work may help save lives.

24 Oct 2016

Congenica reports high diagnostic yields by Sapientia platform in UK 100,000 Genomes Project

Congenica, a clinical interpretation partner for the UK 100,000 Genomes Project, has announced that its whole genome analysis platform Sapientia™ is detecting clinically relevant variants in over 35% of diagnostics reports returned to the NHS Genomic Medicine Centres (GMCs) for the Pilot and Main Phase studies.

24 Oct 2016

Scientists create comprehensive rat brain atlas to guide surgical procedures

Boris Odintsov, senior research scientist at the Biomedical Imaging Center at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and Thomas Brozoski, research professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, have created a comprehensive, interactive rat brain atlas.

21 Oct 2016

URI researchers design smart gloves to measure tremors and rigidity in Parkinson's patients

Prescribing a medication plan for a patient with Parkinson's disease is a big challenge for doctors, but now a University of Rhode Island biomedical engineering professor and his students are making great strides in solving that problem with their groundbreaking research.

21 Oct 2016

Researchers identify proteins in the blood that could improve detection of pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal forms of cancer because early stage symptoms are relatively light, often resulting in it being discovered only after spreading to other organs. In order to improve the prognosis of pancreatic cancer, the development of methods for early detection of pancreatic cancer with a blood test is important.

21 Oct 2016

Delaware Technology Park opens new laboratory incubator on University of Delaware’s STAR Campus

Delaware Technology Park celebrated the opening of its new 10,000 square-foot laboratory incubator located on University of Delaware’s STAR Campus.

20 Oct 2016

Health2Sync partners with Taiwan's MOHW to launch online diabetes care program

Taiwanese startup Health2Sync announced their strategic partnership with Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) in bringing online diabetes care nation-wide.

20 Oct 2016

Wyss Institute wins 'Best of What's New' award for paper-based rapid Zika test

A rapid Zika test, developed by an international, multi-institutional team of researchers led by synthetic biologist James Collins, Ph.D., at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, has today been named a 2016 "Best of What's New" awards winner by Popular Science magazine in the Health category.

20 Oct 2016

Computer-based tools may help clarify potential health risks from food contaminants

When feeds are contaminated with potentially health-damaging substances, such as per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS)/per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFC) from the environment, these substances can be transfered into foods such as meat, milk and eggs.

19 Oct 2016

USAID funds partnership effort to locate and assess Zika cold spots in Guatemala

The Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, software company Dimagi, and Guatemalan NGO TulaSalud announced today that their partnership to locate and assess vulnerable areas in Guatemala to determine their level of risk for a Zika epidemic is being funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

18 Oct 2016

MILabs launches EXIRAD-3D quantitative autoradiography for fast imaging of tissue samples

EXIRAD-3D, MILabs’ new micron-resolution Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) technology, dedicated for imaging ex-vivo tissue samples is being launched by MILabs at the EANM congress in Barcelona.

17 Oct 2016

Cambridge Cognition announces new contracts for CANTAB Connect for HAL testing of investigational drugs

Cambridge Cognition today announced a series of new contracts for its cloud-based CANTAB Connect software platform for the Human Abuse Liability (HAL) testing of investigational drugs.

17 Oct 2016

Software News and Research

Philips launches new UK Population Health Management tools at EHI Live 2016

Accelerated Access Review makes clear recommendations on reforms to speed up patients’ access to innovative technologies

Bibby Scientific to display latest technologies at Lab Innovations 2016

Prior Scientific introduces new motorised microscope stage for precise microplate imaging

Researchers develop new way to test strength of immune response

Video games featuring alcohol and tobacco content may influence adolescents

MTPConnect to provide $7.4 million funding for 14 national projects in medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical sector

Salk researchers develop new computer program to measure blepharosplasm severity

UGA researchers developing big data methods to help tackle diseases

Congenica reports high diagnostic yields by Sapientia platform in UK 100,000 Genomes Project

Scientists create comprehensive rat brain atlas to guide surgical procedures

URI researchers design smart gloves to measure tremors and rigidity in Parkinson's patients

Researchers identify proteins in the blood that could improve detection of pancreatic cancer

Delaware Technology Park opens new laboratory incubator on University of Delaware’s STAR Campus

Health2Sync partners with Taiwan's MOHW to launch online diabetes care program

Wyss Institute wins 'Best of What's New' award for paper-based rapid Zika test

Computer-based tools may help clarify potential health risks from food contaminants

USAID funds partnership effort to locate and assess Zika cold spots in Guatemala

MILabs launches EXIRAD-3D quantitative autoradiography for fast imaging of tissue samples

Cambridge Cognition announces new contracts for CANTAB Connect for HAL testing of investigational drugs

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