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Giving Rookie Dads the Online Info they Really Need

Expectant and new parents often turn to the internet for parenting prep, but it turns out that dads often don't seem to find the information they say they need about pregnancy, parenthood and routes to their own mental health and well-being. Now, a new study from a Canadian team led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) with funding from global men's health charity the Movember Foundation highlights just what soon-to-be and new fathers want to see in a dad-focused website and how best to meet those needs.

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Free iPhone App could Guide MS Research, Treatment

For some diseases, a simple blood test is all that's needed to estimate severity or confirm a diagnosis. Not so for multiple sclerosis. No single lab test can tell doctors what type of MS a patient has, nor whether it's responding to treatment. But by better tracking patients' symptoms and potential triggers with help from a new iPhone app,

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Social Media Data Use Needs Tighter Research Controls

Information shared on social media is being regularly used in research projects without users' consent, a study suggests. Experts have called for tighter control of the practice, with fresh guidelines needed to ensure personal data is being used appropriately. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh say ethics frameworks around consent, privacy and ownership for such studies are not keeping pace with technological developments.

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Leading Health Systems Sign On to Deliver Population Health Management with the Philips Wellcentive Informatics Platform

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, has announced the expanding adoption of its Population Health Management solutions with health systems across the globe, including HealthONE, an integrated delivery network (IDN) in Denver, Colorado. As healthcare organizations seek to transform their business models from fee-for-service toward more value-based care delivery,

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Artificial Intelligence to Evaluate Brain Maturity of Preterm Infants

Researchers at the University of Helsinki and the Helsinki University Hospital (HUH), Finland, have developed software based on machine learning, which can independently interpret EEG signals from a premature infant and generate an estimate of the brain's functional maturity. Published in the journal Scientific Reports, the method is the first EEG-based brain maturity evaluation system in the world.

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E Ink and LTS Partner to Develop Smart Patch to Improve Medical Management

E Ink Holdings, "E Ink" (8069.TW), the leading innovator of electronic ink technology and LTS Lohmann-Therapie Systeme AG, "LTS" leading in the development and manufacturing of transdermal therapeutic systems, have announced their partnership to develop a "Smart Patch" prototype.

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Pflegetiger Adds Digital Health Ventures as New Investor, Accelerates Growth

Since summer 2016, Pflegetiger has been developing its innovative concept of neighborhood care, a concept designed to make in-home care attractive for care professionals again. The company's revolutionary approach - characterized by a decentralized organization model, the combination of everyday tasks and prescribed medical services, and the use of modern technology

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New Highlights in the Programme for MEDICA - Number of Exhibitors Again Exceeds 5,000

13 - 16 November 2017, Düsseldorf, Germany.
The number of people in Germany who work in the health sector has increased to more than seven million for the first time during the period from 2016. The health industry's industrial segment alone now provides jobs for a good 900,000 people and therefore 100,000 more than the automotive industry does.

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MSD Innovation Factory is Looking for Digital Solutions for Anaesthesiologists

MSD is looking for innovators to solve 7 health-related challenges. One of them seeks to support anaesthesiologists with their continuous education (e.g. at the operation room) or their team building with surgeons. As a leading pharmaceutical company, MSD is aware of the need to incorporate innovation to deliver the best possible value to healthcare professionals, patients and customers.

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Integrated Lab-on-a-Chip Uses Smartphone to Quickly Detect Multiple Pathogens

A multidisciplinary group that includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Washington at Tacoma has developed a novel platform to diagnose infectious disease at the point-of-care, using a smartphone as the detection instrument in conjunction with a test kit in the format of a credit card.

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