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A Machine Learning Model to Predict Immunotherapy Response in Cancer Patients

Immunotherapy is a new cancer treatment that activates the body's immune system to fight against cancer cells without using chemotherapy or radiotherapy. It has fewer side effects than conventional anticancer drugs because it attacks only cancer cells using the body's immune system. In addition, because it uses the memory and adaptability of the immune system, patients who have benefited from its therapeutic effects experience sustained anticancer effects.

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Health Fabric and Sandwell Council Secure Healthy Ageing Challenge Funding to Tackle Health Inequalities

Digital health company Health Fabric is preparing to work with Sandwell Council after learning that it has secured support from The Healthy Ageing Challenge.

The company will work with public health experts and local communities on Healthy Sandwell programmes, following the successful bid to the "game changing" fund run by UK Research and Innovation and Innovate UK.

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Could a Computer Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia?

It takes a lot of time - and money - to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. After running lengthy in-person neuropsychological exams, clinicians have to transcribe, review, and analyze every response in detail. But researchers at Boston University have developed a new tool that could automate the process and eventually allow it to move online.

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IBM Aims to Capture Growing Market Opportunity for Data Observability with Databand.ai Acquisition

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it has acquired Databand.ai, a leading provider of data observability software that helps organizations fix issues with their data, including errors, pipeline failures and poor quality - before it impacts their bottom-line. Today's news further strengthens IBM's software portfolio across data, AI and automation to address the full spectrum of observability and helps businesses ensure that trustworthy data is being put into the right hands of the right users at the right time.

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AI Enables Non-Invasive, Accurate Screening for Down Syndrome in the First Trimester

Down Syndrome, also known as Trisomy 21, is the most common chromosomal abnormality causing developmental delay and intellectual disability and can be identified in utero. Many pregnant women seek to determine whether their fetus has this abnormality.

Now researchers from the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) have developed an intelligent prediction model to achieve non-invasive screening of Down Syndrome using ultrasound image.

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Healthcare 5.0 Technologies at Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress 2022

26 - 27 September 2022, Zurich, Switzerland.
Healthcare 5.0 technologies and smart healthcare services are presented at Healthcare Automation and Digitalization Congress (AUTOMA+ Healthcare). The Congress gathers industry leaders from hospitals and healthcare providers, pharmaceutical companies together with medical device manufacturers and service companies.

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Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust to Deploy New Laboratory Information System from CliniSys

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country based in Greater Manchester, is working with CliniSys to deploy a single, laboratory information system across its pathology services to improve clinical practice and patient care.

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Virtual Reality Technology could Strengthen Effects of Traditional Rehabilitation for Multiple Sclerosis

In a recent article, Kessler Foundation scientists advocated for the incorporation of virtual reality (VR) technology in cognitive rehabilitation research in multiple sclerosis (MS). They presented a conceptual framework supporting VR as an adjuvant to traditional cognitive rehabilitation and exercise training for MS, theorizing that VR could strengthen the effects of traditional rehabilitative therapies by increasing sensory input and promoting multisensory integration and processing.

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AI Techniques Used to Obtain Antibiotic Resistance Patterns

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is conducting research that analyses antibiotic resistance patterns with the aim of finding trends that can help decide which treatment to apply to each type of patient and stop the spread of bacteria. This study, recently published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, has been carried out together with the University of Exeter, the University of Birmingham (both in the United Kingdom) and the Westmead Hospital in Sydney (Australia).

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Siemens Healthineers and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center announce strategic partnership

Siemens Healthineers and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center announced a new alliance, aimed at advancing personalized medicine and improving access to high quality, cost-effective healthcare. Through the five-year strategic partnership, Siemens Healthineers and Varian, a Siemens Healthineers company, will provide comprehensive technology and services that will build on previous successful collaborative projects.

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