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AI Has Helped to Better Understand How Human Brain Performs Face Recognition

Scientists from Salk Institute (USA), Skoltech (Russia), and Riken Center for Brain Science (Japan) investigated a theoretical model of how populations of neurons in the visual cortex of the brain may recognize and process faces and their different expressions and how they are organized. The research was recently published in Neural Computation and highlighted on its cover.

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Philips Named a Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator for the 7th Consecutive Year

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, has again been recognized as a Derwent Top 100 Global Innovator™ in Clarivate Analytics' annual analysis of the global innovation ecosystem. The Derwent Top 100 Global Innovators report identifies the world's most innovative organizations, those that successfully develop

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New Tool Aids Patients in Selecting a Transplant Center

A new website developed by researchers at Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute (HHRI) and the University of Minnesota (UMN) is making it easier for organ transplant candidates to choose which transplant center is right for them. The website, transplantcentersearch.org, was developed for candidates seeking kidney, liver, heart and lung transplants. Data for liver centers is currently live. Data for other organs will soon be available.

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Surgeons Successfully Treat Brain Aneurysms Using a Robot

Using a robot to treat brain aneurysms is feasible and could allow for improved precision when placing stents, coils and other devices, according to late breaking science presented today at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2020. The conference, Feb. 19-21 in Los Angeles, is a world premier meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health.

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Zooming in on Breast Cancer Reveals How Mutations Shape the Tumour Landscape

Scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of breast cancer ever achieved, revealing how genetic changes shape the physical tumour landscape, according to research funded by Cancer Research UK and published in Nature Cancer. An international team of scientists*, brought together by an ambitious £20 million Grand Challenge award from Cancer Research UK, has developed intricate maps of breast tumour samples, with a resolution smaller than a single cell.

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Carestream Exhibits Innovative Digital Radiography Solutions at ECR 2020

Carestream Health will showcase advances in medical imaging at the largest radiology meeting in Europe - the upcoming European Congress of Radiology (ECR) in Vienna, Austria. This year, Carestream's booth (#407, Expo X4) will feature a range of products that underscore the power of digital medical imaging, improved user and workflow experiences as well as the ability to easily obtain high-quality images.

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Thousands of GP Practices to Avoid Hazardous Prescribing with Help from New PINCER Tech Partnership

More than 4,000 GP practices in England are being better empowered to avoid hazardous prescribing, following a key enhancement to a prescribing decision support technology used widely across the country.

Crucial 'PINCER' prescribing safety indicators, currently being rolled out nationally to avoid errors and hazardous prescribing, will now be flagged directly to thousands of GPs and other primary care prescribers when relevant prescribing decisions are made in the practice for patients.

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Open Call SC1-HCO-18-2020: Developing Methodological Approaches for Improved Clinical Investigation and Evaluation of High-Risk Medical Devices

• In May 2017, a new Regulation on medical devices, Regulation (EU) 2017/745 entered into force that will come into effect in spring 2020. This new Regulation sets forth reinforced rules for the generation of clinical evidence: for instance, clinical investigations for high-risk devices will be compulsory and the requirements regarding the clinical evaluation throughout the product lifetime are more stringent.

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CompuGroup Medical to Acquire Certain Cerner Assets in Germany and Spain

CompuGroup Medical SE (CGM) and Cerner Corporation (NASDAQ: CERN), a global health care technology company, have entered into an agreement regarding the acquisition by CompuGroup Medical of a part of Cerner's portfolio in Germany and Spain. The key products are medico® and Soarian® Integrated Care (S-IC), leading HISs in Germany; Selene®, a leading HIS for public hospitals in Spain, and Soarian Health Archive®, a document archiving solution for healthcare providers.

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