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A Personalized Virtual Heart Predicts the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

When electrical waves in the heart run amok in a condition called arrhythmia, sudden death can occur. To save the life of a patient at risk, doctors currently implant a small defibrillator to sense the onset of arrhythmia and jolt the heart back to a normal rhythm. But a thorny question remains: How should doctors decide which patients truly need an invasive, costly electrical implant that is not without health risks of its own?

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Online Therapy Effective at Treating Depression and Anxiety

Doctors from the University of Pittsburgh showed that providing an online computerized cognitive behavioral therapy (CCBT) program both alone and in combination with Internet Support Groups (ISG) is a more effective treatment for anxiety and depression than doctors' usual primary care.

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Ingestible Robot Operates in Simulated Stomach

In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by external magnetic fields, crawl across the stomach wall to remove a swallowed button battery or patch a wound.

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Philips and UNFPA Collaborate to Transform Lives in Mandera County, Kenya

Royal Philips (NYSE: PGH, AEX: PHIA), in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) today revealed its plans to inaugurate a Community Life Center (CLC) in Mandera, a County in North-Eastern Kenya with one of the world's highest maternal mortality ratio - 3,795 per 100,000 live births.

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New Photonics Technique to Eliminate Unnecessary Thyroid Cancer Surgery

A team of experts from around Europe has come together to develop a portable device with a hand-held probe that will dramatically reduce invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the treatment of thyroid nodules, saving approximately €450 million Euros every year.

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Alder Hey Children's Hospital Set to Become UK's First 'Cognitive' Hospital

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust today announced a ground-breaking multi-year collaborative programme with the Science and Technology Facilities Council's (STFC) Hartree Centre, supported by IBM (NYSE: IBM), to create the United Kingdom's first 'cognitive' hospital by harnessing 'big data' and the power of IBM's Watson technology platform.

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Manchester Student Nurses Receive World First in Care-critical Frontline Digital Skills

Student nurses in Manchester have become the first anywhere in the world to be trained in how to use a vital signs observations technology called Patientrack, before they set foot onto the ward. The pioneering move at The University of Manchester, signals the start of a changing educational focus to equip the UK's first generation of 'paperless' nurses

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102 Million Patient Health Records Managed by Orion Health Software

Orion Health (OHE:NZX/ASX) has announced its software manages 102 million patient health records globally. This new record firmly establishes Orion Health as a leading vendor in the capture and delivery of electronic healthcare information to enable better health and wellness outcomes.

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Grants4Apps Accelerator 2016: You Imagine, Bayer Supports

The Grants4Apps (G4A) Accelerator developed by Bayer invites health IT and technology startups to apply for the program's 2016 edition. This year, Bayer looks primarily into projects aimed at fostering patient-doctor feedback in the Women's Health field as well as those improving patient engagement in Cardiology, Oncology, Radiology and Ophthalmology, but Bayer is also interested in highly innovative software, hardware, technologies applied to digital health fields.

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MyHealthAvatar Android App on Google Play

MyHealthAvatar, a research project funded by the EU with aim to proof the concept of the digital representation of your health status, has launched the Android App on Google Play. Your health status could be designed as a lifetime companion (Avatar). Your Health Avatar will facilitate the collection of, and access to, long-term health-status information.

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