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Scientists Synthesized a Yellow Fever Drug Suggested by AI

Yellow fever is a deadly disease in overpopulated tropical regions of Africa and South America. Infected people have a temperature increase to 39-41°C, chills, severe headache, nausea, and vomiting. The patient’s face becomes dull, the eyelids swell and the skin turns yellow due to liver damage (hence the name of the disease). Before the yellow fever vaccine was developed, the infection claimed thousands of lives for example in 1871, 8 percent of the population of Buenos Aires died in the epidemic.

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Almost Two Thirds of Thoracic Oncologists Used Telehealth for the First-Time During Pandemic: IASLC Survey

Nearly two-thirds of thoracic oncologists surveyed indicated they used telehealth tools for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report issued at the IASLC 2021 World Conference on Lung Cancer.

Telehealth and telemedicine emerged as essential communications tools during the COVID-19 pandemic as alternatives to face-to-face consultation between patients and physicians.

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MEDICA 2021 + COMPAMED 2021: For the Restart as an in-Person Event, Participations Reflect the Optimism of the Medical Technology Industry

15 - 18 November 2021, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The medical technology industry and its suppliers are looking forward to heading to the world's leading industry platforms, MEDICA 2021 and COMPAMED 2021, with optimism. The booking figures for both events confirm this. Almost all of the halls (excepting halls 13 and 14) at the Düsseldorf Trade Fair Centre will be occupied from 15 to 18 November, when the trade fairs will be held on-site once more.

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Head of Data Science EMEA

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture. Its products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At Bayer you have the opportunity to be part of a culture where we value the passion of our employees to innovate and give them the power to change.

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Siemens Healthineers AI-based COVID-19 Severity Algorithm Now Available

Through a year-long collaboration with a number of leading healthcare institutions across the globe, Siemens Healthineers has developed the Atellica COVID-19 Severity Algorithm,(1) a model designed to help predict the potential liklihood of progression to severe disease and life-threatening multiorgan dysfunction in COVID-19 patients.

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Scientists Develop AI to Predict the Success of Startup Companies

A study in which machine-learning models were trained to assess over 1 million companies has shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can accurately determine whether a startup firm will fail or become successful. The outcome is a tool that has the potential to help investors identify the next unicorn.

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Open Call HORIZON-HLTH-2022-IND-13-04: Setting up a European Smart Health Innovation Hub

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination 6 "Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health industry". To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:

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Ranking Apps on Privacy

The last thing you want to do when installing a new, free app on your phone is to scroll through pages of information on what kind of access to your personal information it requires. App builders count on this, and their intrusive apps harvest data that they can then sell. That is why University of Groningen computer scientist Fadi Mohsen, together with colleagues from the University of Michigan-Flint (US) and the Palestinian An-Najah National University, has developed an algorithm that ranks similar apps on privacy scores.

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Researchers Use AI to Predict which COVID-19 Patients will Need a Ventilator to Breathe

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an online tool to help medical staff quickly determine which COVID-19 patients will need help breathing with a ventilator.

The tool, developed through analysis of CT scans from nearly 900 COVID-19 patients diagnosed in 2020, was able to predict ventilator need with 84% accuracy.

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Bittium Expands Its Minority Holdings in Remote Cardiology Service Companies in Europe

Bittium Biosignals Ltd, a subsidiary of Bittium Corporation, and British ECG service provider, Technomed Limited, have today signed an agreement under which Bittium will purchase a 25 percent stake in Technomed's capital stock. The agreement will strengthen the partnership between the companies in the development of ECG technology that measure the electrical activity of the heart.

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