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MEDICA App COMPETITION 2019 Launches

18 - 21 November 2019, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Held in Düsseldorf, the world's leading medical trade fair, MEDICA, is also the world’s number 1 when it comes to start-ups in the health sector. Accordingly, several hundred start-ups will once again be among the more than 5,000 exhibitors that are bringing their innovations for inpatient and outpatient healthcare to MEDICA 2019.

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3D Body Mapping could Identify, Treat Organs, Cells Damaged from Medical Conditions

Medical advancements can come at a physical cost. Often following diagnosis and treatment for cancer and other diseases, patients' organs and cells can remain healed but damaged from the medical condition. In fact, one of the fastest growing medical markets is healing and/or replacing organs and cells already treated, yet remain damaged by cancer, cardiovascular disease and other medical issues.

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Advanced Therapies Feature in New IMI Call for Proposals

Advanced therapies are a major part of new Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Calls for proposals. The two advanced therapies topics aim to accelerate research into advanced therapies for rare diseases, and support the development of engineered T cells to fight cancer. Other topics in the Calls address artificial intelligence; the need for reliable, relevant health information; and ways of incorporating patients' views and experiences into healthcare and cancer clinical trials.

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QUIBIM to Develop Platform in Leading Research Project to Fight Pediatric Cancer

QUIBIM is helping to advance knowledge of the most lethal pediatric tumors through EU-funded project PRIMAGE, which exploits precision information from medical imaging to establish tumor prognosis, and expected treatment response using radiomics, imaging biomarkers and artificial intelligence (AI).

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Sanofi and Google to Develop New Healthcare Innovation Lab

Sanofi and Google will establish a new virtual Innovation Lab with the ambition to radically transform how future medicines and health services are delivered by tapping into the power of emerging data technologies. The collaboration aims to change how Sanofi develops new treatments and will focus on three key objectives:

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GPs Alerted 5 Million Times in the Last Year to Recommend Self-Care Rather than Write a Prescription

GPs and other prescribers have been prompted more than 5 million times in the last 12 months to encourage patients to take action to look after themselves, rather than relying on medication from their doctor.

A national analysis of how practices in two thirds of England’s CCGs use a prescribing decision support technology called OptimiseRx found that thousands of professionals had been acting on the alerts, helping prescribers to comply with self-care prescribing guidelines from NHS England.

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Call for Startup Pitch Day @ Villeroy & Boch

The Startup Pitch Day is a competition to identify innovative Startups with the aim of creating potential cooperation with Villeroy & Boch Innovations GmbH. Therefore 10 startups are invited to the Villeroy & Boch Startup Pitch Day on 26th August 2019 in Mettlach.

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Wearable Technology to Personalize Lu-177-DOTATATE Therapy for NETs

Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, are developing a user-friendly (worn at home) vest with technology that collects data to tailor personalized therapy for patients with metastatic, somatostatin-receptor-2 positive neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The study was presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).

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A Miniature Robot that could Check Colons for Early Signs of Disease

Engineers have shown it is technically possible to guide a tiny robotic capsule inside the colon to take micro-ultrasound images. Known as a Sonopill, the device could one day replace the need for patients to undergo an endoscopic examination, where a semi-rigid scope is passed into the bowel - an invasive procedure that can be painful.

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Head of Healthcare Innovation

Roche in Ireland offers you a unique and exciting opportunity to provide strategic leadership and to shape the new role of Head of Healthcare Innovation Skill Centre. As the Head of Healthcare Innovation you are an enthusiastic advocate of your area of expertise and are responsible for the upskilling of the people in your Skill Centre through development and coaching.

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