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Smart health system to monitor people in COVID-19 quarantine

The global coronavirus pandemic has spread to 187 countries and territories, infecting more than 4.17 million people. Most countries, especially those with a skyrocketing caseload, grapple with a lack of hospital beds and facilities to cater to every patient infected with the virus. Now, a team of researchers may have the solution to this problem – a smart health system to monitor patients who are in home isolation.

12 May 2020

New diagnostic approach has potential to enhance infectious diseases surveillance

A new technique could provide vital information about a community's immunity to infectious diseases including malaria and COVID-19.

11 May 2020

Soft robotic exosuit improves biomechanical gait functions in stroke patients

Stroke is the leading cause of serious long-term disability in the US with approximately 17 million individuals experiencing it each year.

11 May 2020

Telehealth during COVID-19 could help avoid admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis

A new study has shown that for some patients with type 1 diabetes the close monitoring of their condition using telehealth protocols combined with appropriate technology may lead to better care during the COVID-19 pandemic, when patients are avoiding in-person visits.

11 May 2020

Telehealth tools developed for Ebola can enhance care for patients with COVID-19

Telemedicine tools developed at UVA Health to battle Ebola have huge potential in the fight against COVID-19, UVA experts report in a new scientific paper.

11 May 2020

GCS centers support research to fight against global COVID-19 pandemic

In December 2019, the world learned of a new and deadly pathogen. News coming out of Wuhan, China confirmed public health experts' worst fears--a novel coronavirus appeared to have jumped from animals to humans.

11 May 2020

New biosensor system may hold the key to personal management of gout

In a recent article published in the February issue of the journal Sensors, researchers at Texas A&M University have reported a technology that might help people with gout disease monitor their symptoms better.

11 May 2020

Novel radiotracer is an effective option for staging of prostate cancer

The novel radiopharmaceutical 18F-PSMA-1007 is both effective and readily available for detecting malignant prostate cancer lesions, according to research published in the April issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

11 May 2020

Novel AI diagnostic can predict COVID-19 based on symptoms

Researchers at King's College London, Massachusetts General Hospital and health science company ZOE have developed an artificial intelligence diagnostic that can predict whether someone is likely to have COVID-19 based on their symptoms.

11 May 2020

New tool to address potential COVID-19 outbreaks

Researchers from the Alcoy campus of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) have collaborated to design a prevision and simulation model that makes it possible to improve the flow of patients and assistance quality at the Department of Health of Alcoy (Alicante) and to manage the crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic.

11 May 2020

Researchers are designing a system to control two main COVID-19 symptoms

Since the declaration of the state of emergency in Spain due to COVID-19, according to data provided by the regions, over 17,000 care home users have died from coronavirus or similar symptoms.

11 May 2020

'Bug Zapper' decontaminates N95 masks with UV-C light

Right around the time in mid-March when Lehigh University moved to remote learning and researchers began to shut down on-campus labs, Nelson Tansu, the Daniel E. '39 and Patricia M. Smith Endowed Chair Professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering, received an email from Dr. Christopher Roscher, an anesthesiologist at St. Luke's University Health Network.

11 May 2020

CoVent-19 Challenge: Seven finalists build ventilator prototypes using Stratasys 3D printers

More than 200 teams from around the world have submitted designs for a rapidly deployable, minimum viable ventilator as part of a hackathon hosted on GrabCAD.com, with round one ending May 1.

From Stratasys 11 May 2020

Internet search patterns important in tracing and predicting COVID-19 spread

A new study published on the preprint server medRxiv in May 2020 has identified a link between Internet search patterns and local disease progression for COVID-19. It recommends the use of search data to track and predict COVID-19 spread as a complementary method to established public health surveillance methods.

10 May 2020

UCD researcher awarded €500,000 SFI Future Innovator Prize for innovative imaging solution

Ireland's Minister for Business, Enterprise, and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, TD, has today announced that a special Science Foundation Ireland Future Innovator Prize of €500,000 has been granted to University College Dublin researcher, Professor Dominic Zerulla.

9 May 2020

UOC develops new method to improve quality of CT scan imagery

Computerized tomography (CT) is one of the most effective medical tests for analyzing the effects of many illnesses, including COVID-19, on the lungs.

9 May 2020

Innovative device could help treat babies with blood disorders

With severe blood disorders, such as leukemia, doctors often rely on leukapheresis, a procedure in which large machines extract whole blood from patients to separate white blood cells from the rest of the blood, which is then returned back to the patient.

8 May 2020

Huron Digital Pathology granted US patent for barcoding digital images; image search validation paper published in nature digital medicine

Huron Digital Pathology announced today that it has been granted a US patent for barcoding digital images. The invention forms the basis for Huron’s image search platform.

From Huron Digital Pathology 8 May 2020

Researchers develop safe, accurate 3D imaging method to improve IVF treatments

Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers have developed a safe and accurate 3D imaging method to identify sperm cells moving at a high speed.

8 May 2020

Researchers to develop new imaging device for infants with brain disorders

Using night-vision goggle technology, near-infrared light, and high-resolution detectors, a wearable imaging device for awake infants with brain disorders was developed by a team of scientists and a pediatric neurosurgeon at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).

7 May 2020