Nov 7, 2019 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Sub-Saharan Africa has, on average, the worst healthcare in the world, according to the World Bank. It accounts for nearly a quarter of all disability and death caused by disease worldwide, yet has only 1% of global health expenditure and 3% of the world’s...
Nov 7, 2019 | Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Scientists have developed a “paper bird” robot that is small enough to fit inside the human body to perform operations. Built by researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich, the microscopic robots use tiny, programmable magnets for it to be...
Oct 31, 2019 | Business, Healthcare
Health tech startup Twistle landed $16 million to fund a platform that makes it easier for hospitals to communicate with patients. The Series A funding round was led by Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and MemorialCare Innovation Fund (MCIF), the venture arm...
Oct 31, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare
Gina Ciavarra is sitting in a dark room at NYU Langone Health in Manhattan. It’s a reading room, a space for radiologists like her to examine X-ray and MRI scans. The monitors in front of her display grayscale images of a de-identified patient’s knee, and...
Oct 23, 2019 | Healthcare, Robots & Drones
United Parcel Service Inc. is striking a series of drone-delivery agreements with health-care groups as it develops new technology pitched to the growing medical market. The plans include expanding the use of drones to deliver cargo such as medical samples...
Oct 23, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Healthcare
A computer algorithm developed by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and UC Berkeley bested two out of four expert radiologists at finding tiny brain hemorrhages in head scans — an advance that one day may help doctors treat patients...
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