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New Blood Pressure App and Hardware Rivals Arm Cuff Accuracy

Cuff devices for blood pressure measurement are inconvenient, and mobile device apps for blood pressure measurement that are now being introduced may lack accuracy. To solve this problem, a team of Michigan State University scientists has created a new app and hardware for smartphones to measure blood pressure with accuracy that may rival arm-cuff devices.

KONFIDO: An Innovative View of eHealth Security

The Horizon 2020 funded KONFIDO Action concluded its activities related to User Requirement Analysis. This initial phase of the Action entailed a gap analysis study about secure and interoperable solutions at the systemic level, the definition and analysis of user scenarios, the user requirements elicitation, and an intense interaction with the KONFIDO end-users (both patients/citizens and healthcare professionals) for the identification of barriers and facilitators concerning eHealth acceptance coupled with cybersecurity technologies.

Smartphone App may Help Reduce Hospital Readmissions after Heart Attack

A new smartphone app may help reduce the number of hospital readmissions in patients who have been treated for a heart attack, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Cardiovascular Summit in Las Vegas. The "Corrie" app, developed for iPhone, is the first cardiology app for the Apple CareKit platform. The app is designed to help patients navigate the hospital discharge process by educating them about heart disease.

Evaluating Diabetes Self-Help Tools

The research team, from left: Prof. Eirik Årsand, PhD student Meghan Bradway, MD Anne Grethe Olsen and Dr. Konstantinos Antypas. Pictured on tablets: Dr. Elia Gabarron and Prof. Gunnar Hartvigsen. Foto: Jarl-Stian Olsen.

There is an increasing amount of self-help tools among people with diabetes. They use apps, social media and various cloud-based solutions to cope. Now, e-health researchers will make guidelines for evaluating the apps and online resources they use.

Mobile Health Applications Put the Personal Data of Millions of Users at Risk

80% of the most popular health applications available on Android do not comply with standards intended to prevent the misuse and dissemination of their users' data. This is the finding of a European study started in 2016 and involving Agustí Solanas, head of the Smart Health research group at the URV's Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, and researchers from the University of Piraeus (Greece) headed by Constantinos Patsakis.

Lung Cancer Drug Resistance Explained by Computer Simulations

Scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Parma, Italy, have used molecular simulations to understand resistance to osimertinib - an anticancer drug used to treat types of lung cancer. Osimertinib binds tightly to a protein, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which is overexpressed in many tumours. EGFR is involved in a pathway that signals for cell proliferation, and so is a target for drugs. Blocking the action of EGFR (inhibiting it) can switch it off, and so is a good way to treat the disease.

Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots Programmed to Seek and Destroy Tumors

In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots to shrink tumors by cutting off their blood supply.

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New Blood Pressure App and Hardware Rivals Arm Cuff Accuracy

KONFIDO: An Innovative View of eHealth Security

Smartphone App may Help Reduce Hospital Readmissions after Heart Attack

Evaluating Diabetes Self-Help Tools

Mobile Health Applications Put the Personal Data of Millions of Users at Risk

Lung Cancer Drug Resistance Explained by Computer Simulations

Cancer-Fighting Nanorobots Programmed to Seek and Destroy Tumors

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