#author_name|Mariella Moon, #Health Care Industry Zipline drones will deliver medicine to communities in Utah Zipline has teamed up with a healthcare provider servicing the Intermountain Region in the US to deliver medicine to customers using its drones. The c Wednesday, October 05, 2022 Share
#author_name|Jon Fingas, #Health Study finds surgery patients wearing VR headsets needed less anesthetic More evidence is mounting that virtual reality might relieve pain during surgery . <em> MIT News</em> reports that Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researcher Wednesday, September 21, 2022 Share
#author_name|Daniel Cooper, #Fitness Withings has a new smart scale and 'Health+' fitness subscription platform Withings is today announcing yet another in its range of class-leading smart scales, Body Comp. The device is pitched as a “complete body assessment s Thursday, September 01, 2022 Share
#author_name|Kris Holt, #Finance Amazon will buy primary healthcare provider One Medical for $3.9 billion Amazon has struck a deal to buy primary healthcare company One Medical for $3.9 billion. The provider offers in-person care at locations across the US Thursday, July 21, 2022 Share
#author_name|Andrew Tarantola, #Health Pressure mounts on FDA to expand pig-to-human organ transplant research In January, doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine made history by successfully transplanting a pig's heart into a human . The 57 Thursday, July 07, 2022 Share
#author_name|Daniel Cooper, #Health England’s health service will use drones to deliver vital chemotherapy drugs The UK’s National Health Service has announced that it will test delivering vital chemotherapy drugs via drone to the Isle of Wight. The body has part Tuesday, July 05, 2022 Share
#author_name|Amrita Khalid, #Health Care Industry FDA clears Rune Labs to use the Apple Watch to monitor Parkinson's Turns out the Apple Watch’s motion sensors can be a useful tool for Parkinson’s patients and their physicians. The FDA has granted approval to Rune La Monday, June 13, 2022 Share
#author_name|Andrew Tarantola, #Business Hitting the Books: How Ronald Reagan torpedoed sensible drug patenting Americans pay two and a half times more for their prescription drugs than residents of any other nation on Earth. Though generic versions of popular c Saturday, March 12, 2022 Share
#author_name|Igor Bonifacic, #Consumer Discretionary Owlet stops selling infant monitoring sock after FDA order Following a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Owlet has stopped selling its popular Smart Sock family in the US. On October Thursday, November 25, 2021 Share
#author_name|Andrew Tarantola, #Disease & Medical Conditions Hitting the Books: An ode to the joy of antibiotics The stress and uncertainty surrounding the COVID pandemic, along with misinformation about the life-saving vaccines developed in response have broken Saturday, November 20, 2021 Share
#author_name|Devindra Hardawar, #Health Headspace gives US teens free access to its mental health app After offering free mental health exercises at the beginning of the pandemic, Headspace has announced that it's opening up its service for free to Wednesday, November 17, 2021 Share
#author_name|Igor Bonifacic, #Health Care Industry Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs is a new company focused on AI-driven drug discovery Last year, Alphabet’s DeepMind announced its AlphaFold 2 AI showed it could predict how certain proteins would fold in a way that was competitive with Thursday, November 04, 2021 Share
#author_name|Kris Holt, #Health Care Industry Amazon details custom Alexa programs for hospitals and retirement communities Amazon has announced two new programs for Alexa centered around healthcare and retirement homes. Through Alexa Smart Properties , hospitals and senior Monday, October 25, 2021 Share
#author_name|Igor Bonifacic, #Health Weight loss app Noom gets into mental health coaching Since 2011, Noom has made a name for itself as a weight loss app. This week, with the introduction of a new feature called Noom Mood, it’s expanding i Friday, October 15, 2021 Share
#author_name|Jon Fingas, #Health Apple is reportedly exploring ways to use AirPods as health devices Apple's health ambitions for AirPods might extend beyond using them to boost conversations . <em> Wall Street Journal</em> sources claim Apple is exploring mu Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Share
#author_name|Steve Dent, #Health Care Industry Withings' ScanWatch is finally coming to the US after FDA clearance Withings' ScanWatch has received FDA clearance, paving the way for it to be sold in the US starting in November, the company announced. The watche Tuesday, October 12, 2021 Share
#author_name|Steve Dent, #Health FTC rules that health apps must notify consumers affected by data breaches Since 2009, companies handling health records have been required to notify consumers if their data is breeched. Now, the rule has been extended to hea Thursday, September 16, 2021 Share
#author_name|Andrew Tarantola, #Health Hitting the Books: How Florence Nightingale changed medicine using stats and 'rose charts' During Crimean War, hospitals of the day weren't so much centers of healing or recovery as they were the places where injured combatants went to d Saturday, September 11, 2021 Share
#author_name|Igor Bonifacic, #Disease & Medical Conditions IBM's AI can predict how Parkinson's disease may progress in individuals In the past, we’ve seen doctors use AI software to detect brain tumors , kidney illness and various cancers . Now, researchers from IBM and Michael J. F Thursday, July 29, 2021 Share
#author_name|Kris Holt, #Health FDA clears Synchron's brain-computer interface device for human trials A company that makes an implantable brain-computer interface (BCI) has been given the go-ahead by the Food and Drug Administration to run a clinical t Wednesday, July 28, 2021 Share
