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Light Beam Replaces Blood Test During Heart Surgery

A University of Central Florida professor has invented a way to use light to continuously monitor a surgical patient's blood, for the first time providing a real-time status during life-and-death operations. The technology developed by UCF scientist Aristide Dogariu uses an optical fiber to beam light through a patient's blood and interpret the signals that bounce back.

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New Studies Illustrate How Gamers Get Good

We all know that practice makes us better at things, but scientists are still trying to understand what kinds of practice work best. A research team led by a Brown University computer scientist has found insights about how people improve their skills in a rather unlikely place: online video games.

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Philips Teams Up with German Startup Onelife Health to Expand its Digital Health Services in Mother and Child Care

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced a partnership agreement with German digital health company Onelife Health to jointly develop innovative connected health solutions around mother and child care. Leveraging synergies between the portfolios of the two companies in this important area of consumer health, the partnership will initially focus on developing Onelife's Femisphere pregnancy and first-year-of-life guidance app.

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CUBE Tech Fair Welcomes Spectacular Speakers

10 - 12 May 2017, Berlin, Germany.
CUBE Tech Fair welcomes Brigitte Zypries, Germany's Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy. CUBE is inspired by her work at the Ministry of Economics, in which she places a strong emphasis on advancing the Industry 4.0. She supports startups as well as SMBs (small & medium-sized businesses), where she promotes various financial instruments and network opportunities offered by the BMWi.

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Virtual Reality Cognitive Training Game for Remote Detection of Mild Cognitive Impairment

Greek researchers demonstrated the potential of a self-administered virtual supermarket cognitive training game for remotely detecting mild cognitive impairment (MCI), without the need for an examiner, among a sample of older adults. MCI patients suffer from cognitive problems and often encounter difficulties in performing complex activities such as financial planning.

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Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator Paris

In the global marketplace, one size doesn't fit all. That is especially true for today's diverse and competitive startup ecosystem. Oracle Startup Cloud Accelerator is not your traditional accelerator program - it's a next-generation acceleration initiative. The program focuses on reimagining enterprise innovation through partnerships with startups that foster codevelopment and co-innovation, where we all win.

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Limitations of Physician-Rating Websites

Patients are increasingly seeking information about physicians online. Nearly 60 percent report that online reviews are important when choosing a physician. Because publicly reported quality data are not reported at the physician level, patients must consult physician-rating websites to find such reviews.

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Artificial Synapse for Neural Networks

For all the improvements in computer technology over the years, we still struggle to recreate the low-energy, elegant processing of the human brain. Now, researchers at Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories have made an advance that could help computers mimic one piece of the brain's efficient design - an artificial version of the space over which neurons communicate, called a synapse.

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Agfa HealthCare's Health Management Platform Chosen for Integrated Care Project Between Saolta University Health Care Group (Republic of Ireland) and Altnagelvin Hospital (Northern Ireland)

Agfa HealthCare announces today that its health management platform, including the XERO universal image viewer, has been selected to support the joint Radiotherapy Treatment Project of the Saolta University Health Care Group and Altnagelvin Hospital, part of Western Health and Socal Care Trust.

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Online Pharmacies Could Fuel Antibiotic Resistance

The researchers from Imperial College London analysed 20 pharmacies that were available for UK citizens to access online. This is one of the few studies to have examined the online availability of antibiotics and to have explored the potential effects on public health. The research is published in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

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