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Can a Brain-Computer Interface Convert your Thoughts to Text?

Ever wonder what it would be like if a device could decode your thoughts into actual speech or written words? While this might enhance the capabilities of already existing speech interfaces with devices, it could be a potential game-changer for those with speech pathologies, and even more so for "locked-in" patients who lack any speech or motor function.

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After Blindness, the Adult Brain Can Learn to See Again

More than 40 million people worldwide are blind, and many of them reach this condition after many years of slow and progressive retinal degeneration. The development of sophisticated prostheses or new light-responsive elements, aiming to replace the disrupted retinal function and to feed restored visual signals to the brain, has provided new hope. However, very little is known about whether the brain of blind people retains residual capacity to process restored or artificial visual inputs.

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Amgen Builds its Digital Health Capabilities Through Investment in Leading Digital Health Incubator

Amgen (Europe) GmbH, an affiliate of Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) (collectively, "Amgen") today announced an investment in eHealth Ventures, an Israel-based digital health incubator. The investment reflects Amgen's commitment to serving patients by driving innovation and sustainable healthcare through technology discovery, and recognizes the importance of Israel as a source of innovation in eHealth and digital technologies.

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Get Your Startup to the Next Level

The Merck Accelerator is looking for startups with the potential to reshape entire industries and make people's lives richer. The focus is on startups in the fields of healthcare, life science and performance materials - with a digital perspective. Do you have plans to internationalize your business? Are you ready to get your start-up to the next level?

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Philips' Third Quarter Results 2016 - HealthTech

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) has announced that the Personal Health businesses grew by 7% on a comparable basis, with growth across the portfolio, most notably double-digit growth in Health & Wellness, and the Adjusted EBITA margin improving by 130 basis points. The Diagnosis & Treatment businesses showed comparable sales growth of 6% and the Adjusted EBITA margin improved by 210 basis points, mainly driven by Image-Guided Therapy and improvements at the Cleveland site.

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Smartphones Alone Not the Smart Choice for Teen Weight Control

Teens use smartphones successfully to do almost anything: learn new skills, communicate with friends, do research and catch Pokémon. But a new study finds smartphones aren't as useful for helping teens maintain weight loss. In a 24-week behavioral study that combined traditional weight control intervention with smartphone-assisted helps, researchers found that teens lost weight initially, but couldn't maintain it when smartphones were the only tool helping them stay on track.

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Pediatricians Update Digital Media Recommendations for Kids

It's not so bad to hand your child an iPad once in a while depending on how it's used.

Playing a game together or Skyping with Grandma? That's OK.

Helping your little one calm down or trying to keep peace in the house? Not so much.

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GE Invests in GAMA-TÜRKERLER JV to Develop Two Major Healthcare PPPs in Turkey

In line with Turkey's strategic healthcare transformation program, GE Healthcare, GAMA Holding A.Ş. and Türkerler İnşaat A.Ş., today reached a definitive agreement for the development of two strategic Ministry of Health (MoH) PPPs; the İzmir & Kocaeli Integrated Healthcare Campus Projects.

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Engineers, Mathematicians and Doctors Unite to Develop New Breast Cancer-Detection Option

An international team comprising engineers, mathematicians and doctors has applied a technique used for detecting damage in underwater marine structures to identify cancerous cells in breast cancer histopathology images. Their multidisciplinary breakthrough, which has the potential to automate the screening of images and improve the detection rate, has been published in leading journal, PLOS ONE.

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New Version of Agfa HealthCare Enterprise Imaging Platform Extends Support for Patient-Centric Care Along the Care Continuum

Agfa HealthCare announces that it is releasing a new version of its Enterprise Imaging platform. Customer-driven enhancements include academic, multi-site, radiology and additional specialty workflows for medical imaging. The Enterprise Imaging platform has already been adopted by hospitals worldwide, and has been recognized as the Number 1 Enterprise Imaging solution

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