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Cancer Care Model could Help Us Cope with COVID-19

As the UK government looks for an exit strategy to Britain's COVID-19 lockdown a nanomedicine expert from The University of Manchester believes a care model usually applied to cancer patients could provide a constructive way forward.

Kostas Kostarelos, is Professor of Nanomedicine at The University of Manchester and is leading the Nanomedicine Lab, which is part of the National Graphene Institute and the Manchester Cancer Research Centre.

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Application Period for an International Master in Digital Health at DIT-ECRI Open until Mid-July

The Master of Sciencein Medical Informatics (MMI) at European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI) in Pfarrkirchen - a branch of the Deggendorf University of Applied Sciences (DIT) in Bavaria, Germany - is now accepting applications for entry in October 2020.

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Hôpitaux Robert Schumann to Pilot AI Technology for COVID-19 Detection

The COVID-19 outbreak has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, causing huge impact on people's lives, families and communities. With the increasing number of infections each day, combining assessment of CT imaging scans with clinical findings could facilitate early diagnosis of COVID-19 Pneumonia, thus allowing for early intervention.

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Electronic Skin Fully Powered by Sweat can Monitor Health

One of the ways we experience the world around us is through our skin. From sensing temperature and pressure to pleasure or pain, the many nerve endings in our skin tell us a great deal.

Our skin can also tell the outside world a great deal about us as well. Moms press their hands against our foreheads to see if we have a fever. A date might see a blush rising on our cheeks during an intimate conversation.

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Stabilizing Brain-Computer Interfaces

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) have published research in Nature Biomedical Engineering that will drastically improve brain-computer interfaces and their ability to remain stabilized during use, greatly reducing or potentially eliminating the need to recalibrate these devices during or between experiments.

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DMEA 2020 to be Held as a Virtual, Free Event

16 - 18 June 2020, Berlin, Germany.
This year's edition of DMEA, originally scheduled for 16 to 18 June 2020, is to be held entirely as a virtual event.

On 16 June selected keynote speeches and other formats will be streamed live. Both these and other program items will be available online on demand.

From 16 to 18 June many exhibitors at DMEA will also be featuring a virtual progam.

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Philips Teams with University of Kentucky's UK HealthCare to Power State's only eICU Clinical Command Center

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and UK HealthCare, the clinical enterprise of the University of Kentucky, announced a collaboration to create Kentucky's only operating clinical command center for tele-critical care and operational optimization.

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Smartphone Application for Coronavirus Contact Tracing

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have developed a free, open-source smartphone application that permits contact tracing for potential coronavirus infections while preserving privacy. The team's project is detailed in a paper published recently in JMIR mHealth and uHealth.

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Are you a HealthTech or BioTech Startup? Apply Now to X-Europe

The EU funded programme called X-Europe aims to foster the growth of the leading European deeptech startups by providing top-notch training and services, and guiding partnerships with investors, corporations, and governments. The programme is delivered by five leaders in the startup community - F6S, TNW, Design Terminal, Growth Tribe, and TechChill.

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Coronavirus Brings Dawn of Digital Healthcare

In light of the highly-infectious Coronavirus pandemic, healthcare systems across the world have had to adapt rapidly for the evolving situation for three reasons:
1. The need to triage and treat large number of patients with respiratory problems
2. The need to protect healthcare workers to ensure they can treat the sick
3. The need to protect the elderly and most vulnerable in society from being infected

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