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How many calories in that tweet?

It's easy to find out how many calories are in a Twinkie. But how about in a tweet? A team of scientists have invented a new instrument for measuring just that: the caloric content of social media posts - like tweets.

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Ascom to Supply Alerts Management and Nurse Call Solution for New London Hospital

The solution, installation of which begins in March 2017, includes 96 Ascom Myco built-for-Healthcare handsets, interface software to wirelessly communicate alerts and data from 128 medical monitors to staff handsets, a comprehensive Ascom TeleCare IP nurse call system featuring 1,700 devices, and a full suite of Ascom Unite software.

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Teach a Computer to Recognize AML

Researchers have developed the first computer machine-learning model to accurately predict which patients diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia, or AML, will go into remission following treatment for their disease and which will relapse. The computer was trained using bone marrow data and medical histories of AML patients, as well as blood data from healthy individuals.

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One Step Closer to Personalized Antibiotic Treatment

Taking antibiotics to fight an infection won't necessarily solve your problems. Often, natural occurring bacteria in the gut harbor several resistance genes. This means that the gut bacteria may exchange genes with the infectious bacteria, resulting in antibiotic resistance. Therefore, knowing the resistome - i.e. the pool of resistance genes present in the gut microbiota - can improve treatment immensely.

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SAP IoT Startup Accelerator

The SAP IoT Startup Accelerator is a structured co-innovation program for selected B2B startups focusing on the Internet of Things. The Accelerator helps startups grow and scale their businesses alongside SAP, its partners, and its customers, with all parties benefitting from each other as well as from SAP's knowledge of the ecosystem.

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Deep Learning in Healthcare Summit

28 - 01 March 2017, London, UK.
Discover advances in deep learning tools and techniques from the world's leading innovators across industry, academia and the healthcare sector. Learn from the experts in speech & text recognition, neural networks, image classification and machine learning.

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Philips and Diagnostics Development win European Union 'Horizon Prize - Better Use of Antibiotics'

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a leader in HealthTech, and Diagnostics Development, a P&M Venge company spin-off from Uppsala University (Sweden), have demonstrated a proof-of-concept for the rapid and reliable detection of bacterial infection. The test is based on Philips' Minicare I-20 handheld diagnostics platform and detects the human neutrophil lipocalin (HNL) biomarker in a single 'finger-prick' drop of blood.

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conhIT 2017: In Search of Innovative Trends

25 - 27 April 2017, Berlin, Germany.
Be it electronic patient information software or a video conference system that brings in an interpreter whenever a refugee visits the doctor - this year at the conhIT eHealth Slam software and app developers can again showcase their practical eHealth projects to a wide audience in entertaining ways, in the shape of a poem, interview or live experiment.

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Carestream Signs First Full Clinical Collaboration Platform Contract in the Netherlands

Carestream has signed its first full Clinical Collaboration Platform (CCP) contract with the Ikazia Hospital in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This milestone agreement is for a period of five years, and is in addition to the PACS Cloud contract already in place with the hospital.

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Hand-held Breath Monitor to Detect Flu

Perena Gouma, a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, has published an article in the journal Sensors that describes her invention of a hand-held breath monitor that can potentially detect the flu virus.

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